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Auditing mental health aspects of child protection

✍ Scribed by Peter Reder; Sylvia Duncan

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 114 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 0952-9136
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199905/06)8:3<147::aid-car558>3.0.co;2-3

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✦ Synopsis

Child protection is a multi-agency responsibility, in which expertise held by dierent professionals is mobilised in order to recognise, assess and intervene into problems of parenting. Good collaboration between the dierent professionals is therefore key to eective network functioning, in which each agency recognises the relevance of the others and maintains clear lines of communication with them. Cases of fatal child abuse have provided evidence of the tragic consequences of practitioners failing to collaborate and communicate together eectively (e.g. Reder, Duncan and Gray, 1993).

The contribution of mental health services to child protection practice has become the focus of increasing interest in recent years. There has been evidence in the literature for some time of a relationship between parental mental health problems, especially substance misuse, and child maltreatment (e.g.

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