NCJ Number
124978
Journal
Child Abuse and Neglect Volume: 14 Issue: 3 Dated: (1990) Pages: 387-395
Date Published
1990
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This article presents a model of child abuse treatment that allows practitioners to consider in a systematic way the problems that arise when different agencies need to work together on complex child abuse cases.
Abstract
The paper proposes five stages through which such cases routinely progress: interagency cross referral, joint case conference, allocation of treatment responsibilities, simultaneous treatment, and formal joint periodic reassessment. It argues that the problems at these five stages are major contributors to treatment breakdown. The clinician who analyzes the dynamics at each stage is better equipped to control the treatment process than the clinician who restricts his or her attention to dynamics that are occurring within one agency. 1 figure, 15 references. (Author abstract)