Parentassess or PAMS assessments
Parenting Assessment Manual
Parent Assess Assessments
Being a parent is not easy, and every parent has a different style of parenting.
If social services have child protection concerns about your children, you may be asked to have a Parent Assess assessment.
Who Needs A Parent Assessment?
Parent Assess Assessments are suitable for all parents, but specifically for parents with learning disabilities. It includes lots of different practical activities that engage the families.
Families are involved in assessing themselves as they move along the assessment, and the social worker assesses the parents’ abilities to meet the child/ren’s basic and essential needs.
Staff members at Norden Hills Family Centre have been trained to complete Parent Assess assessments and managers and staff attend the practice shares that are held on a monthly basis.
Parenting Assessment Manual
The PAMS Assessment (Parenting Assessment Manual) was developed by Dr Sue McGaw, a nationally renowned Clinical Psychologist in the field of working with parents with difficulties.
Dr Sue McGaw designed the PAMS as a tool that can be used to look more closely at what is required for ‘good enough parenting’.
