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Working together to provide effective assistance: quality framework for explanatory analysis in youth care

“We want to provide effective assistance—but what constitutes ‘effective’ when it comes to explanatory analysis?”

Whether you are a youth care professional, policy officer, quality officer, or administrator, you want children, young people, and families to receive appropriate care. Explanatory analysis plays a crucial role in this. Increasingly, professionals, together with families and other stakeholders, are identifying the factors associated with the difficulties experienced. But how do you know if an explanatory analysis is really of good quality?

Many professionals indicate that explanatory analysis helps them gain a better understanding of what is going on. At the same time, they need guidance: what are good starting points, how can you test such an analysis, and how can you improve your explanatory analysis skills?

That is why a quality framework for explanatory analysis in youth care is now available.

Based on a Delphi study with a panel of experts, we have compiled an overview of quality criteria: the quality framework for Explanatory Analysis in youth care. The quality criteria are grouped into six main themes and two additional themes. They address what professionals need to do to arrive at a good Explanatory Analysis and how they can do this together with others in a careful and systematic manner.

The quality framework helps professionals gain insight into what they already do well and where they can develop further. It also makes mutual exchanges about quality and professional considerations more concrete and focused. In this way, the quality framework contributes to conscious reflection, the promotion of expertise and better care.

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We are currently conducting follow-up research into a reflection tool based on this quality framework. The results of this follow-up research will be shared on this page.

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The complete quality framework can be found here: Praktion

The quality framework was developed based on research conducted by Praktikon, Radboud University, the University of Groningen, Molendrift, and the Zero Movement. The research project was made possible by the Welfare Work Fund.

In this article in Jeugd in Ontwikkeling (Youth in Development), you can read about how the quality framework was developed.