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Applying Research on Risk & Resilience to Assessment of Children with Sexual Behaviour Problems
1. Applying Research on Risk
& Resilience to Assessment
of Children with Sexual
Behaviour Problems
Jane F. Gilgun, Ph.D., LICSW
Professor, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities
1404 Gortner Avenue
St Paul MN 55108 USA
jgilgun@umn.edu
http://ssw.che.umn.edu
June 26, 2003
G-MAP Conference, Bolton, Lancashire, United Kingdom
3. Significance
Practice effectiveness
Accountability
Brief treatment
Evidence-based practice
Best research evidence
Clinical experience
Client preferences, wants, cultures
Practitioners’ personal experiences, values,
cultures
Ethical codes
4. Purposes of the Instruments
direct attention to positives
lead to helpful assessments
help formulate treatment plans
help estimate progress in treatment
provide a check on countertransference
provide measures of outcome
provide data that demonstrates effects of
treatment
5. Concepts of the Instruments
Assets are Significant in Models of Risk
Adding Assets to Risk Models Increases
Accuracy of Classification
Assets Alone in Models of Risks May be as
Accurate as Risk Alone Models
Assets, Risks, and Protective Factors Reside
Within Individuals, Families, Other Social
Groups, Communities, Social Policies,
and Cultural Themes and Practices.
Asset Models Require Shifts in Thinking
6. Assets
Assets are positive counterparts of risk that
can contribute to pro-social outcomes when
individuals are exposed to risks.
Assets include factors such as high IQ,
physical attractiveness, verbal facility, parents
who care, safe neighborhoods, adequate
family income, a pro-social sense of agency,
optimism about a positive future
Not all persons with assets turn out well, nor
do all persons from poor families and unsafe
neighborhoods have maladaptive outcomes
7. Risks
Risks predict that a proportion of an at-risk
group will experience adverse outcomes.
Persons with risks are vulnerable to an
associated outcome, but risks cannot predict
that any one person in an at-risk group will
experience that outcome
Risks include childhood maltreatment, unsafe
neighborhoods, isolated families, exposure to
persons who model violent behaviors, genetic
risks such as those predisposing persons to
particular types of physiological reactivity
Individuals in an at-risk group, however, are
vulnerable to that outcome.
8. Risk Pile-Up
a series of risks that may
overwhelm whatever resources an
individual can marshall
or in some cases persons appear to
have the resources to cope.
10. Protective Factors
Pro-social sense of agency
Desire to emulate persons who are pro-social
Have avenues open to them where they can
attain a sense of self that includes self-
efficacy and self-worth
These avenues do not harm self or others
Emotional expressiveness
Affirmative relationships
Healthy sexuality
Sense of belonging to a pro-social group
Strong sense of positive future
Resources to attain future goals
11. Resilience
Definition: positive outcomes when
individuals have been exposed to risks
Resilience means a person has risk
conditions and therefore has
vulnerabilities
Persons can be
Resilient at one point and not at others
Resilient in some areas and not in others
13. Scoring the CASPARS
Each instrument yields two scores: An asset
score and a risk score
Scores for each instrument are attained by
summing each column
Children can be classified by using scores
from single instruments
Children can be classified using scores
resulting from the sums of scores
of all the instruments for a global score
14. Scoring the CASPARS
1=low strength or low risk
2=medium strength or medium risk
3=high strength or high risk
0=not observed or unknown
16. Scoring the 4-D
Each instrument yields two scores: An asset
score and a risk score
Scores for each instrument are attained by
summing each column
Children can be classified by using scores
from single instruments
Children can be classified using scores
resulting from the sums of scores
of all the instruments for a global score
17. Scoring the 4-D
1=mixed
2=low strength or low risk
3=medium strength or medium risk
4=high strength or high risk
18. Relationship of Assets & Risks
Over the Course of Intervention
40
30
20
10
0
T1 T2 T3
Assets Risks
19. Clinical Assessment
Tools
Short, easy to use
Useful to practice
Provide scores
Not the same as tools used in
psychological and educational testing
Provide practice guidelines
When they are based on research &
practice experience
20. Types of Assessments
Unsystematic
Systematic but idiosyncratic
Systematic and shared
21. Systematic, Shared Asessments
Can coordinate practice across cases,
within agencies, and across agencies
Provide practice guidelines
Help standardize practice
Provide clear identity for the agency
22. Each Case is Unique
General, Agency-Wide Assessment
Individualized goals, outcomes, and
interventions
23. The CASPARS: Sources of
Concepts
My reflections on the factors
associated with resilience
Factors extracted from
My long-term life history research
(primary)
Integrated with
social work’s ecological
perspectives
Research on risk and resilience
24. Sources of Items: 4-D
Circle of Courage
Related research and theory
Experience of social work professionals
and one clinical psychologist
My life history research
25. Sources of Items: CASPARS
Primary: My life history research
Backed up with
Related research and theory
Experience of two social work
professionals and two clinical
psychologists
26. Stetson School Assessment
Responsibility
Honesty
Motivation for treatment
Remorse
Developed by Phil Rich, Barre, MA, USA
1/978/355-4541
27. Capacities for Accountability
What do the young people say about their
problematic sexual behaviours?
Can they describe them?
Take responsibility for them?
Recognize harm done?
Are they willing to apologize?
Are they willing to work on managing these behaviours?
This is a strengths-based approached because such
questions are asking the young people to tap into
their competencies.
28. Capacities for Accountability
Appropriate vs. flat affect in talking about their
behaviours
Take responsibility vs. blame others
Remorse vs. “blowing off”
Signaled by
I’m sorry I hurt others.
I feel ashamed. Does the child appear to have these
responses but need help in articulating them?
How can practitioners do assessments that provide
children with a sense of safety so that children can
show their deep shame, embarrassment, guilt, and
remorse, which we can assume is almost always
there?
29. Field Tests
CASPARS
25 professionals
1 state
N=146
4-D
25 professionals
4 states
N=118
37. Results: Standard Errors
of Measurement
Expected Actual
Belonging 5.5 5.62
Mastery 9.5 7.16
Independence 4.0 8.84
Generosity 4.5 4.87
Total 11.94 11.75
38. Interviews with Users
Usefulness the most important criteria
for the worth of practice tools
Find out instruments’ usefulness
through discussions with users
39. Interviews with Users
Individually
Phone
Email
In-person
Group in-Person
Minnesota staff
South Carolina staff
Informational interviews in person
South Carolina social workers and care providers
40. Responses to the Field Test:
Summary
Positive responses
Helped me know youth in a new way
Led to one of the best conversations I’ve
ever had
Areas for improvement
Too long
Too intrusive, such as the questions on
sexuality
Don’t fit practice
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