COMMUNITIES/SOCIAL
WORKERS: Assessment
- Determine worker safety needs throughout the assessment.
- Assess for domestic violence through routine direct inquiry of the
presence of domestic violence in a manner respectful of victim safety.
Conduct separate interviews with adult victim, child and abusive parent.
- Coordinate assessment efforts with law enforcement, domestic violence
services and the court system.
- Assess the safety of the adult victim as well as the children.
- Consult with the adult victim about her protective behaviors that
may reduce the risk of harm to the adult victim and children. The family
assessment should balance the issues of safety and risk with strengths
and protective capacity of the adult victim.
- Assess the adult victim's capacity to protect herself and her
children. Consideration should be given to the confidence the adult
victim has in the system's ability to keep her and her children
safe and provide necessary resources.
- Assess whether the adult victim poses a maltreatment threat to the
children not related to the domestic violence.
- Assess lethality of the abusive partner's violent behaviors
to determine the level of danger to the victim, children and themselves
and the level of intervention needed.
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