May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.D. MCKENZIE - DR.EX. (OLSON) MAY 31, 2013
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that are properly trained to use the tools?
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Right.
And that has to be intensive adequate training?
Right.
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Q Okay. Then you need the workers who have the
ability to provide intensive service to families?
A Yes. Going back to the tools, they need to be
trained in the use of the tools, but let's remember that
those are only tools and what is, you know, they must be
supplemented with good, sound clinical judgment and an
ability to do an assessment of, of what's needed for
families, and it goes beyond the sort of knowledge of the
tools in order to do that, and then, of course, the skills
to actually do the practise.
Q Right. Not -- it's just a tool, at the end of
the day?
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That's right.
That's all it is.
There -- that's right. They help but they're not
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the full answer.
Q Right. So tools, training, ability to provide
intensive service and focus services?
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And, and good clinical knowledge and skills.
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Q Good clinical knowledge and skills. Then you
also need the family's willing to be engaged with the
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