Creative connections

Parenting capacity, reading with children and practitioner assessment and intervention

Bibliographic Data

ID12569429
AuthorsJanet Seden (The Open University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume13
Issue2
Pages133-143
Publication date2008-04-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChild & Family Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-7500 • E-ISSN: 1365-2206
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00526.x
OpenAlexW2055306318
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

This paper presents some findings from a study of the views of 33 parents from a diversity of backgrounds with children between 0 and 12. Twenty‐two parents were using family support services. They were asked about their views on ‘parenting capacity’ based on the dimensions of The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families (Department of Health et al .) which are now incorporated into the Common Assessment Framework used in Every Child Matters (Department for Education and Skills). They were also asked about reading with their children and how this enhanced their parenting capacities. Their responses were analysed using the parenting capacity dimensions of The Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families . It became apparent that this common activity (parent/child reading) contributed much to children's development and to the quality of the child/parent relationship. It also enhanced parenting capacity as described in the parenting capacity dimensions. This paper presents that part of the findings which illustrates the creative connections that exist between the activity of parents and children reading together and the parenting capacity dimensions social workers use in assessment and intervention. These findings are relevant to practitioners working within current policy and practice agendas in children's services, which promote multidisciplinary working and non‐stigmatizing assessments and interventions

Developmental psychology · Diversity (politics · Intervention (counseling · Multidisciplinary approach · Parent training · Parenting skills · Political science · Positive parenting · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Quality (philosophy · Reading (process · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Family and Disability Support Research · Family Support in Illness · Psychology

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