ABSTRACT

In cases where child protection concerns are evident, a central query within inter-professional, safeguarding assessments, centres on the parents’ capacity to change to enhance their child’s lived experience. Social workers, as key professionals co-ordinating such assessments, require analytical tools and models to enable them and others to reach a considered judgement on this pressing, complex aspect of case inquiry. This article describes one such model. The model builds on the C-Change Approach which reviews the change process from a mainly cognitive-behavioural perspective. While recognising the strengths of this contribution to child protection assessment, the authors have extended it by examining change from a psycho-dynamic orientation. This orientation takes account, not only of the intra-psychic dynamics within the individual, but also the relational forces at work between people. Lastly, the authors consider how this extended model can be utilised to analyse and facilitate desired changes in parenting practices. Here, they draw on the helpful notion of a force-field analysis: a conceptual representation of the dynamics of change within a social situation.

摘要

在儿童保护问题很明显的情况下，跨专业、保护性评估中的一个中心问题集中在父母改变的能力上，以增强他们孩子的生活体验。社会工作者作为协调此类评估的关键专业人员，需要分析工具和模型，使他们和其他人能够对案件调查的这个紧迫而复杂的方面做出深思熟虑的判断。本文描述了一种这样的模型。该模型建立在 C-Change 方法的基础上，该方法主要从认知行为的角度审查变更过程。在认识到这种对儿童保护评估的贡献的优势的同时，作者通过从心理动力学方向检查变化来扩展它。这种取向不仅考虑到个人内在的心理动力，还有人与人之间的关系力量。最后，作者考虑了如何利用这种扩展模型来分析和促进育儿实践中的预期变化。在这里，他们利用了力场分析的有用概念：社会情境中变化动态的概念表示。