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Whole-Day Assessments: A Team Approach to Complex Multi-Problem Families

Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK

David Bone

Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK

Jill Smith

Child and Family Psychiatry Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK

Practitioners in child mental settings are often faced with complex demands when asked to assess multi-problem families; all the more so when their conclusions and recommendations are likely to have a major impact on subsequent decisions in court. Over time, the authors have developed a model of assessment which effectively encapsulates the demand for comprehensiveness, relevance and fairness, incorporates a rich variety of individual and systemic approaches, leads to a high attendance and completion rate, and goes some way to addressing current post-modernist challenges. While the model is closely calibrated to our own skills and beliefs, we are confident that the design easily allows for adaptation by other teams faced with similar demands.

Key Words: child protection • eclectism • family assessment • multidisciplinary • post-modernism

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