The Common Language training programme and accompanying materials are currently under development. Between 80 and 90 short lectures on the core concepts and their application to policy and practice are planned. So far, 45 have been completed.
The list of completed presentations follows. More will be added as they become available. A PDF of the handout that accompanies each presentation is made available for selected lectures.
Activity and Services
6.1 What are children's services?
6.2 What is the difference between population-wide and targeted services?
6.3 What are universal provision, prevention, early intervention, treatment and social provision?
6.4 What are targeted services?
6.5 What value does the individual practitioner add?
6.6 When are children's services effective?
Assessment
8.2 What are the principles of good assessment?
8.3 What are the functions of good assessment?
8.4 What are the rules of interviewing and other data collection?
8.5 What is prediction?
8.6 How to do a social history
8.7 How to link and sequence information
8.8 How to do a full assessment
8.9 How to link information on individuals and on groups
8.10 How to use instruments in assessment
Child Development
2.2 What is different about child development?
2.3 What differentiates between abnormal and normal development?
2.4 What are the features of abnormal child development?
2.5 What is abnormal health?
2.6 Opportunities and dangers in looking back
Need
4.1 What is need?
4.2 What are universal and relative needs, and lists?
4.3 What are the challenges with respect to children's needs?
4.4 What do children need for improved health and development?
4.5 What is the difference between needs and rights?
4.6 Snapshot and movie
Outcomes
7.2 What is an output?
7.3 What is a logic model?
7.4 How to measure outcomes
7.5 What is a realistic outcome?
7.6 What are typical outcomes and outputs selected by communities and children's services agencies?
Risk and Protective Factors
3.1 What is risk?
3.2 What are protective factors?
3.3 What are coping strategies and resilience?
3.4 What are chains of effect?
3.5 Hypotheses and predictions
Threshold
5.2 What are absolute and relative judgements?
5.3 What is impairment and significant impairment?
5.4 What is impairment, disability and handicap?
5.5 What other thresholds exist?
5.6 How do threshold judgements relate to the provision of services?