Re: Risk Assessment Instruments

["Diane Depanfilis" <DDEPANFI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest you look broader than what affects implementation of risk 
assessment to the organizational change literature - "resistance" to 
doing something new is part of it, rather than resistance to using a  
specific instrument.  I reviewed this literature and published a 
paper, DePanfilis, D. (1996).  "Implementing child mistreatment risk 
assessment systems: Lessons from theory" in Administration in Social 
Work, Vol. 20(2), 41-59 which might point you to the right literature 
and then potential applicable measures.











> Date sent:      Fri, 20 Feb 1998 11:59:31 -0500 (EST)
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> To:             Child Maltreatment Researchers   <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
> Subject:        Risk Assessment Instruments

> Hello,
> 
> I am conducting research, on the use of risk assessment instruments by
> social workers, with the local child welfare agency.  I am specifically
> looking at what goes into workers' decisions to use or not use the risk
> assessment instrument.  Therefore, I am looking for instruments that deal
> specifically with these issues or similar issues.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Sakinah Salahu-Din, Ph.D., MSW
> Associate Professor
> Saint Joseph College
> West Hartford, CT  06117  
> 
> Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
School of Social Work
525 West Redwood Street
Baltimore, MD   21201
(410) 706-3609
(410) 706-6046-Fax
DDEPANFI@SSW02.UMARYLAND.EDU