title: [Psychosocial risk assessment among families receiving assistance from the social services].
abstract: This study analyses the psychosocial risk profiles that better discriminate between three levels of risk: low, middle and high. We also examine to what extent the assessments of the level of risk made by professionals of social services are consistent with their decision of initiate a "risk declaration" expedient. For this purpose, 468 cases of families (245 two-parents and 223 one-parent) were examined through the Psychosocial Risk Profile of the Family. Discriminant analysis showed that social exclusion and family violence profiles discriminate between high and middle-low levels of risk in two-parent families. Negligence and family violence plus maternal inadequacy and children maladjustment discriminate between high and middle-low levels of risk in one-parent families. There is a high consistence between the assessment of psychosocial risk and the decision to initate a procedure of a "risk declaration" in both families, with a tendency to overestimate the middle risk in one-parent families.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.
authors.forename: Guacimara
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Camacho
authors.forename: María José
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rodrigo
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Martín
authors.forename: María Luisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Máiquez
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015362:Child Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D002668:Child Rearing; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004493:Education; D005190:Family; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007228:Infant Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D020954:Single-Parent Family / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012946:Social Welfare; D012947:Social Work / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain