Indicators measured and tools used

 

Evaluation of proximal effects

 
Indicators Tools

• Parental perception of the quality of support practices employed by the principal caseworker;

• Parental perception of the quality of collaboration with the principal caseworker;

• Parental perception of the degree of control they have over decisions regarding services for their children and families.
 

 • Evaluation questionnaire regarding quality of services received (QESR);

• Helping Practices Scale (HPS);

• Questionnaire regarding parent-practitioner collaboration (QCPP)1;

• Control scale with respect to services (ECS).
 

1 This questionnaire combines items from the Fear-of-intimacy Scale (Descutner & Thelen, 1991) and from the Home-School Survey (McGrew & Gilman, 1991).




Evaluation of intermediary effects

 
Indicators Tools

• Parental adjustment and parenting;

• Quality of the child’s family environment.
 

• Family Needs Scale (FNS);

• Inventory of Child Well-being (ICBE) (factors related to “parental aptitudes” and “quality of home”);

• Parental Stress Index (PSI);

• Combined questionnaire (JVQ-PCCTS-MNBS);

• Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) (≥ 1.5 years);

• Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME).
 




Evaluation of final effects

 
Indicators Tools

• Child cognitive, language, behavioural, and emotional development;

• Child victimization.
 

• Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI);

• Children’s Well-being Information Platform (PIBE) (motives for referral);

• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) (≥ 5 years);

• Developmental Assessment (GED) (≤ 5 years).