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Mastering Whole Family
Assessment in Social Work

Mastering Social Work Skills series

Edited by Jane Wonnacott

This series of short, accessible books focuses on the everyday key skills that social workers need in order to practise effectively and ensure the best possible outcomes for service users. Easy to read and practical, the books feature key learning points, practice examples based on real-life situations, and exercises for the reader to enhance their learning. The books in this series are essential reading for post-qualifying social work students and social work practitioners.

Jane Wonnacott is Director of In-Trac Training and Consultancy, UK.

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MASTERING

Whole Family
Assessment in
Social Work

Balancing the Needs of Children,
Adults and Their Families

Fiona Mainstone

Foreword by Jane Wonnacott

Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia

Figures 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 4.2, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.2 are reproduced/adapted from The Family Model Handbook Dr Adrian Falkov, 2012 with permission of Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd.

First published in 2014

by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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London N1 9BE, UK

and

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Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

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Copyright Fiona Mainstone 2014

Foreword copyright Jane Wonnacott 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Mainstone, Fiona.

Mastering whole family assessment in social work : balancing the needs of children, adults and their

families / Fiona Mainstone ; foreword by Jane Wonnacott.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-84905-240-5

1. Family social work--Great Britain. 2. Family services--Great Britain. 3. Families--Great Britain. 4.

Dysfunctional families--Great Britain. 5. Family violence--Great Britain. I. Title.

HV700.G7.M25 2014

362.82640941--dc23

2013043197

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84905 240 5

eISBN 978 0 85700 484 0

CONTENTS

APPENDIX 1
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN WHOLE FAMILY ASSESSMENT

APPENDIX 2
CLINICAL TOOLS AND MEASURES MOST FREQUENTLY USED TO INFORM ASSESSMENT IN ADULT AND CHILDRENS SERVICES

APPENDIX 3
SOME PRACTICAL TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR WORK WITH CHILDREN AND PARENTS

Foreword

When social workers have confidence in their own skills, purpose and identity, and in the system in place to back them up, they have a huge amount to offer. They collaborate effectively with other professionals and adapt to new roles and expectations. Most importantly, they forge constructive partnerships with people who find themselves vulnerable or at risk and make a sustained difference in their lives.

Report of the Social Work Task Force (2009, p.5)

This book is an important addition to this series. It tackles one of the thorny issues of contemporary social work: how can we work together as a social work profession in order to meet the needs of the whole family?

When social workers worked generically with mixed caseloads of children and adults there was a concern that practice skills were diluted and the specialist skills needed in specific areas of practice were lost. Since the separation of adults and childrens services, social workers have been faced with the challenge of how to develop specialist social work skills with either adults or children and at the same time be able to keep the needs of the whole family in mind. Social workers sometimes report feeling de-skilled in areas of work with which they lack familiarity. Where both children and adults have apparently competing needs and social workers are working with colleagues from other services, changes to legislation, guidance and practice expectations may result in misunderstandings about each others role which hinder the assessments being carried out.

This is an unusual book in that it is for social workers working with both children and adults. It addresses the criticism from too many serious case reviews that adults and childrens services failed to work effectively together and as a result the needs of vulnerable family members were not addressed. This book aims to identify the challenges facing social workers in specific roles and explore on the fundamentals of a good assessment, giving the reader ideas and workable frameworks for practice. Like other books in this series there is a focus on the importance of reflective practice and the importance of relationships, both within and across organisational boundaries.

A comment on the title

The series has been entitled Mastering Social Work as it aims to move beyond basic skills to those which may support the practitioner in more challenging circumstances. Mastering is a process of developing expertise by applying learning and knowledge to practice. It is a continuous activity. Our aim and hope is that this series will assist social workers in this task by providing ideas and frameworks to support them in their day to day work.

Jane Wonnacott
Director of In-Trac and Consultancy, UK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people have been extraordinarily generous!

Several different systemic assessment models are referred to throughout this book. Bronfenbrenners ecological approach, Boushels framework for assessing the protective environment, Reder and Duncans framework for risk assessment and Farnfields ecological model of parenting all help us secure well-rounded, holistic, whole family assessments. Dr Falkovs Family Model provides an integrated approach that relates specifically to supporting mentally ill parents and their children. It is especially useful in the context of whole family assessment at the interface between adult and childrens services, because it explicitly encourages critical reflection on the complex interactions between different aspects of each familys experience. The Family Model is reproduced and briefly explained in and I am grateful to Dr Falkov for allowing me to refer to it under the terms of its licence. I firmly believe that its principles support holistic design and analysis in whole family assessment where adults face a wider range of complex life difficulties. Its emphasis on examining the dynamic between different dimensions of family experience inspires several exercises in this book.

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