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Mental health professionals in children's advocacy centers: is there role conflict? |
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Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 21(1), January-February 2012, pp.91-108. |
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1053-8712 |
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1547-0679 |
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Child advocacy centres (CACs) are specialised programmes designed to provide the most effective professional response to reports of child sexual abuse or other serious child abuse. Two recent chapters in professional books (Melton and Kimbrough-Melton (2006) and Connell (2008)) have criticised CACs for creating role conflict for mental health professionals because of their work with criminal justice and child protection professionals as part of a coordinated response to child abuse. This article argues that these critiques misunderstand CAC practice and overestimate the risk of role conflict. CAC standards set a boundary between forensic interviewing and therapy, functions that are never conducted by the same professional for a given child and in most CACs are conducted by separate sets of professionals. Many mental health professionals serve CACs as consultants with no treatment role. CAC therapists are rarely involved in investigation, and their participation in multidisciplinary teams focuses on children's interests and well-being. |
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advocacy; child abuse; child sexual abuse; mental health care; mental health professionals; professional conduct; professional role; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=16f5d5b9-aeee-4bb8-8a5e-e216f074afa6 |
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