A multidimensional model for treatment of child abuse: a framework for cooperation.
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. 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.
Division of Youth Welfare and Guidance, Queensland, Australia.
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D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000628:therapy*; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005196:Family Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012017:Referral and Consultation