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- Author:
- CROSS Merry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.1.94, 1994, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at difficulties in a working relationship that can arise between child protection workers and disability professionals. The main problems result from a power imbalance, ignorance of each others' specialisms and the consequences of society's marginalisation of disability. Suggests co-training as a answer to breaking down the barriers. Looks at what can be gained from such training.
Going inter-professional: working together for health and welfare
- Editor:
- LEATHARD Audrey
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 268p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together academics, professionals and researchers from the human services professions to assess key developments and underlying issues around inter-agency and inter-professional relations as they affect hospitals, general practice and community care. Includes chapters on: the theoretical background to inter-professional work; education and management issues; work with children, disabled people, older people and people with mental health problems; implications for carers; and developments in Australia, Western Europe and the USA.
Refocus on child abuse: medical, legal and social work perspectives
- Editor:
- LEVY Allan
- Publisher:
- Hawksmere
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 230p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Covers: child abuse and the approach of the courts; the Children Act 1989 and significant harm; medical management of abused children and their families; the criminal process and child witnesses; a child's right to physical integrity; Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy; allegations of child sexual abuse and the medical examiner; the NSPCC in the 1990s; the Official Solicitor in child abuse cases; the police perspective; psychiatric aspects of interviewing; the child's solicitor in child protection proceedings; and children with disabilities and special needs.