Life Skills Progression: An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk

The updated second edition of the Life Skills Profile (LSP) is a reliable tool for evaluating parents' life skills, including abilities, behaviors, and attitudes, for home visiting programs. It covers eight important domains and can be completed in 10 minutes. The LSP helps establish baseline and ongoing assessment profiles, identify strengths and needs, plan interventions, and demonstrate the effectiveness of practices. It is used by home visitors, including public health nurses, social workers, mental health care providers, and family development and family support workers, to track the progress of children and parents or caregivers. The new edition includes a new chapter on using the LSP to promote maternal health literacy, guidance on completing the LSP during virtual home visits, and updated research, citations, and information. Ancillary materials are now provided as convenient downloads. The LSP can be used with the ASQ®-3 & ASQ®:SE-2 to summarize developmental data gathered with the ASQ system.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2024
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co

The Life Skills Profile (LSP) is a crucial tool for home visiting programs, providing an efficient and reliable means to assess the abilities, behaviors, and attitudes of parents and caregivers needed for a healthy and satisfying family life. Designed for use with at-risk, low-income pregnant and parenting individuals with children from birth to 5 years of age, the LSP is a field-tested, validated, and reliable tool that generates a comprehensive and accurate portrait of the life skills of parents, caregivers, and young children. The LSP is easy to complete in approximately 10 minutes, making it a valuable resource for home visiting programs. It helps establish baseline and ongoing assessment profiles of clients, identifies strengths and needs, plans interventions, and demonstrates the effectiveness of practices through monitoring of outcomes. Home visitors, including public health nurses, social workers, mental health care providers, and family development and family support workers, use the LSP to evaluate a variety of important life skills. The LSP covers eight important domains: Relationships with Family and Friends, Relationships with Children, Relationships with Supportive Resources, Education and Employment, Health and Medical Care, Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Basic Essentials, and Infant/Toddler Development. Home visitors rate each competency from 1 to 5 on a simple-to-complete form, providing valuable case data in the notes section. There is no judgment of families implied; the LSP is used only to track the progress of children and parents or caregivers and can be repeated every six months until the child is 5 years old. The updated second edition of the LSP includes a new chapter on using the LSP to promote maternal health literacy and guidance on completing the LSP during virtual visits.

Dimension: 279 x 216 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781681255828
Edition number: 2 Revised edition