TY  - SER
AU  - Oak, Eileen B.
TI  - A minority report for social work?: The Predictive Risk Model (PRM) and the Tuituia Assessment Framework in addressing the needs of New Zealand's vulnerable children 
PY  - 2016///
PB  - Oxford Journals, 
KW  - CHILD ABUSE
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - PREDICTIVE RISK MODELLING
KW  - RISK ASSESSMENT
KW  - SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
KW  - TUITUIA ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - British Journal of Social Work, 2016, 46(5): 1208-1223
N2  - This article examines the viability of the Risk Predictor Model (RPM) and its counterpart the actuarial risk assessment (ARA) tool in the form of the Tuituia Assessment Framework to address child vulnerability in New Zealand. In doing so, it suggests that these types of risk-assessment tools fail to address issues of contingency and complexity at the heart of the relationship-based nature of social work practice. Such developments have considerable implications for the capacity to enhance critical reflexive practice skills, whilst the introduction of these risk tools is occurring at a time when the reflexive space is being eroded as a result of the increased regulation of practice and supervision. It is further asserted that the primary aim of such instruments is not so much to detect risk, but rather to foster professional conformity with these managerialist risk-management systems so prevalent in contemporary Western societies. (Author's abstract). Record #5273
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1093/bjsw/bcv028
ER  -