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Assessment of the Well-being of Children in their Social Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Yvonne Darlington
Yvonne Darlington*
Affiliation:
Legal Aid Office, Queensland
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The assessment of the well-being of children in their family and wider social environments is the common brief of social workers and other family practitioners across a variety of agency settings. Whether the focus is child protection, family therapy, family assessment in family law matters or a combination of the above, the practitioner finds the necessity to derive an accurate and sensitive assessment of how a particular child is faring in his or her social environment.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , 1988 , pp. 8 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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