Re: Early recognition of seriousness

[bill higgins <bill_higginsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

It was my understanding that there is little or no
evidence to support stages of change in a social work
setting.  Is this not true?

Bill


--- DSWLFSU@aol.com wrote:
> Two thoughts occur to me about this:
> 1) I think there is a great need to build into
> assessments and subsequent 
> family work the Prochaska/diClemente model of change
> which i think isn't as 
> central to practice as it should be. There's a
> summary of this work in the 
> Reader accompanying the new Framework
> 2) I believe that all case files should have a
> Critical Incident File at the 
> front of the file so that all incidents of note can
> be put down and this, 
> freed from all the vast accumulation of detail that
> files inevitably gather, 
> can give a readily available overview of the pattern
> of events. A particular 
> inquiry into a child death in Sheffield a few years
> ago argued this point 
> very persuasively.
> 
> David Saltiel
> Service Manager
> West Leeds Family Service Units
> Tel: 0113-275-7600
> email: dswlfsu@aol.com
> 


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