Re: Early recognition of seriousness

["Ken Prescott & Teri Keeler" <bc766@xxxxxxxx>]

Not only should the Prochaska & DiClemente change model be used to improve
the CPS Social Worker's perception of clients, but, Miller & Rollnick's
book, Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive
Behavior could be well recieved as required reading for those preparing to
work in the field.

Prochaska, J. O., & DiClemente, C.C. (1984). Transtheoretical therapy:
Toward a more integrative model of change. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research,
and Practice, 19, 276-288.

Cited in Miller W. R. & Rollnick S., et al. (1991). Motivational
Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior, Guilford, New
York.

Ken Prescott, MSW, LCSW
Los Angeles, California

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Polstra" <JPolstra@Kidwrap.org>
To: "Child Maltreatment Researchers"
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject: RE: Early recognition of seriousness


Could you give the full citation to the Prochaska & di Clemente summary you
refer to in the e-mail below?  Is it available via the internet?
John Polstra, MSW, LCSW
YES Supervisor
Jpolstra@kidwrap.org

-----Original Message-----
From: DSWLFSU@aol.com [mailto:DSWLFSU@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 6:57 AM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Re: Early recognition of seriousness

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