Main description:

Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment provides detailed descriptions of child maltreatment assessment and key strategies for culturally informed risk assessment in families.

The book presents a new model for evaluating families that includes cultural competence, a conceptualization of adequate parenting, and strategies for reflective decision making. Chapters address a range of factors including race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality. Ten case studies, each including discussion prompts, challenge the reader to apply forensic evaluation techniques for effective and ethical decision making in complex and ambiguous cases. Both experienced mental health providers and students will come away from the book with a deeper understanding of child maltreatment and its effects, models and modes of assessment, and factors that place families at greater risk.

Contents:

List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Introduction to Multicultural Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment 2. Defining Child Maltreatment 3. Effects of Child Maltreatment 4. Families at Risk 5. Assessing Families for Risk 6. Assessing Children for Maltreatment 7. Multicultural Considerations in Assessment 8. The Adequate Parent 9. Decision Making in Child Maltreatment Risk Assessment Index