Graded Care Profile, a tool for child neglect cases.
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The aim of this paper is to estate that the tool Graded Care Profile (GCP) is useful in the Spanish context for improving the work with families engaged in child neglect situations. We identify characteristics of the practitioners and family interaction that result in the decrease of efficacy of Evidence based programs. We support the practitioners-family interaction as a variable that enhance the efficacy of any intervention, following the Practice based evidence as reference. So, we identify, using Michel Foucault concepts, aspects of the relation that lead the family to reject the professional intervention. We propose the Perfil de Niveles de Cuidados (name of the Spanish version of the GCP) as a helpful tool for overcoming the gap between research and practitioners. Even as an opportunity to tackle with the working alliance as a complementary approach with other methods or tools. To get to this conclusion, we apply qualitative information from professionals working with families with at risk children. The results show that the tool is easy to use and can enhance the formulation planning, the monitoring of the case and the consensus with the family we are treating: the group of practitioners participating in this study asserted the apparent validity is good and the main advantage is how it structures/organizes the assessment/treatment/reports. We highlight that the tool considers the care-child relation as the objective of assessment, is suitable for a positive parenting perspective and takes the child point of view to decide about the quality of the care, if it meets her/his needs and if he/she is the priority. More investigation is needed to know the psychometric properties of the Spanish version and the opinion of the families about the tool.
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