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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2.Cognitive biases and risk assessment.- 3. Steps in constructing a psychometric assessment instrument.- 4. Screens to assess children's mental wellbeing and resilience.- 5. Trauma and clusters of children's disturbed behaviours.- 6. New generation approaches to assess parent-child relationships.- 7. Example of assessment of parent-child relationship.- 8. Personality Assessment Inventory testing in Family Court evaluations.- 9. Parenting Capacity Instrument for child protection.- 10. Proposed criteria for good-enough parenting in vulnerable families.- 11. Example of assessing parenting capacity for a parent with depression.- 12. Example of assessing parenting capacity for a parent with bipolar disorder.- 13. Example of assessing parenting capacity for a parent with substance misuse disorder.- 14. Assess severity of risk to child from parental health conditions.- 15. Hearing the voice of a child, and thresholds for making legal decisions.- 16. Assess impacts on child of exposure to family violence.- 17. Assess impacts on child of parental substance misuse.- 18. Assess parental readiness to change practices.- 19. Assess quality of parent-child contact in out-of-home care.- 20. Assess risk of domestic violence.- 21: Conclusion.- 22. Glossary.
