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The assessment of parenting: some interactional considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Reder  and
Clare Lucey
Peter Reder
Affiliation:
Charing Cross Hospital, 2 Wolverton Gardens, London W6
Clare Lucey
Affiliation:
Westminster Children's Hospital, Vincent Square, London SW1
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Psychiatrists are frequently invited to give expert opinions to Courts about children's emotional welfare, their parents' capacity to care for them and issues of placement and access. Previous child abuse/neglect may have been suspected or confirmed or the parents might suffer from psychiatric symptoms. Assessment may be required of parents' mental state with a guide to prognosis, but, in addition, factors in parent–child relationships will be crucial to overall assessments of parenting.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 347 - 348
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