Adult Psychiatry—A Missing Link in the Child Protection Network: A Response to Reder and Duncan

✍ Scribed by Dr. Adrian Falkov

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-9136
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199703)6:1<41::aid-car300>3.0.co;2-#

✦ Synopsis

The child protection network would be enhanced through more active participation by adult psychiatric services. This is Reder and Duncan's (Child Abuse Review, Vol. 6(1): 000±000) key theme in commenting on the study of Part 8 Reviews (Falkov, 1996). Also important, however, must be the routine consideration of the impact and in¯uence of parental psychiatric disorder on children by practitioners in child protection agencies. The study of parental psychiatric disorder and child deaths highlighted the absence of both adult psychiatric participation in child protection procedures and the failure of child agencies to routinely consider adult mental health implications for children (prior to the tragedy as well as in the production of P8 Reviews). Reder and Duncan raise a number of pertinent methodological points, particularly concerning psychiatric diagnosis.