Parental risk assessment

Parental risk assessments are designed to assess a broad base of parental risk indicators known to predict harm to children.  

Our expertise includes a broad range of parental problems:

  • Early childhood experiences, attachment and personality development
  • Personality disorder
  • Mental health and psychological functioning, including severe mental health problems such as Schizophrenia.
  • Aggression and difficulties of emotional self-regulation
  • Intellectual functioning
  • Substance abuse
  • Domestic violence, violence and sexual violence and abuse.
  • Sexual risk to children
  • Neglect and emotional harm
  • Parental attitudes, parental functioning and parental non-protectiveness
  • Parent-Child interactions
  • Risk and risk management in the wider family network following non-accidental injury