Pre-Birth Assessments
Overview
The aim of this training is to introduce learners to using Calder’s pre-birth risk assessment tool and understand what is involved in undertaking robust assessments and planning
Who is the Course Aimed?
Children’s Social Care Staff
How Long is the Course?
2 days
Learning Outcomes
Day 1
- Aims and purpose of pre-birth risk assessments
- Understanding of personal and ethical considerations
- Working in partnership when undertaking a pre-birth risk assessment
- Examining multi-agency tasks and roles
- Looking at the complex risk assessment and analysis issues
- Look at parenting styles
- Parenting capacity engaging parents in planning and assessing capacity
- Motivation
- Fears and anxieties of parents
- Parents understanding of expected baby’s needs and ability to meet them
- Good practice in working with parents
- Concealed pregnancy
- Worker client relationship
- What to consider/cover in assessment
- Professional challenges
- Multi- disciplinary framework to guide assessment (Calders work)
- Skills required, what is there to assist etc
- Decision-making
- Legal context
- Planning and future plans
Day 2
- Understanding additional complexities in relation to parenting when young
- Reflections and questions from day one
- Focus on young parents and pre-birth risk assessments
- Understanding adolescent development in context of own needs and impact on expected baby’s needs
- Adolescents are not yet adults – brain functioning, risk taking, issues with empathy etc.
- Principle risks for baby’s
- Balancing needs of a young person and those of the expected baby
- Areas to assess
- Understanding change processes and potential responses to change efforts
- Assessing engagement, motivation for problem solving
- Mental health concerns and young people
- Hidden harm issues
- Drugs and alcohol , young people and impact on expected baby
- Key assessment principles
This course is modelled on Martin Calder’s CATAC Model of Pre-birth Assessments. We have permission to deliver this training however a license fee has to be paid directly to Martin Calder when booking this course
