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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Advance Access originally published online on June 29, 2005
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 2005 5(3):310-327; doi:10.1093/brief-treatment/mhi024
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Research Commentary

Reviewing the Evidence on Assessing Risk for Child Abuse and Neglect

   Della Knoke, MA
   Nico Trocmé, PhD

From the Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare, University of Toronto (Knoke) and McGill University (Trocmé)

Contact author: Della Knoke, Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M58 1A1. E-mail: della.knoke{at}utoronto.ca.

Risk assessment is a central component of crisis intervention in all aspects of practice. Nowhere is this more pronounced however, than in the assessment of families in crisis and children at risk of abuse. Structured risk assessment instruments are promoted to manage increasing demands for child welfare services by providing a mechanism to guide decision making regarding the type and intensity of services required to protect children from subsequent harm. The value of the structured risk assessment instruments is hypothesized to lie in improved consistency and accuracy of workers' judgments. However, risk assessment models were frequently implemented with little empirical evaluation. Postimplementation studies indicate that many commonly used risk assessment tools fail to attain adequate levels of reliability and validity. A number of challenges to validation have been identified. A more systematic approach to the development and testing of risk assessment instruments is required to support child welfare practice.

KEY WORDS: risk assessment, child welfare, review


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