National survey of hospital child protection teams in Japan

Tanoue, Koji; Senda, Masayoshi; An, Byongmun; Tasaki, Midori; Taguchi, Megumi; Kobashi, Kosuke; Oana, Shinji; Mizoguchi, Fumitake; Shiraishi, Yuko; Yamada, Fujiko; Okuyama, Makiko; Ichikawa, Kotaro

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.01.016

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“…Evaluations of the functions and effectiveness of child protection teams can provide a valuable reference for refining child protection policies and for improving the organizational quality of child protection teams. On the basis of the literature, the established mechanisms for evaluating child protection teams include a hospital-based child protection program evaluation instrument developed by Wilson et al (2010), which was mainly intended to provide a reference for quality improvement, and a child protection team function evaluation tool developed by Tanoue et al (2018), which was incorporated into a national questionnaire survey designed to identify team functions distributed to hospital-based child protection teams. There are other evaluation tools being developed and applied to assessing child protection teams in New Zealand and Japan.…”

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“…Therefore, establishing child protection teams in medical institutions is important to integrate the professional expertise of interdisciplinary teams and provide interventions with the resources required by abused children and their families (Harr et al, 2008). Currently, hospital-based child protection teams or suspected child abuse and neglect teams have been established in countries such as the United States, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Turkey, and New Zealand (Elarousy & Abed, 2019; Kistin et al, 2010; Sahin et al, 2009; Tanoue et al, 2018; Wilson et al, 2010). Team members include physicians with forensic medical examination, psychiatric, pediatric surgical, and other expertise as well as social workers and nurses.…”

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“…Hospital-based child protection teams play many crucial roles, including providing a safe environment, evaluating and confirming abuse status, and providing injury assessment and evidence collection services. Concurrently, child protection teams perform medical evaluation and social evaluation, conduct psychological health assessments and treatment, provide social welfare and police consultation, and carry out subsequent follow-ups (Elarousy & Abed, 2019; Tanoue et al, 2018; Tiyyagura et al, 2021). They cooperate with other disciplines, assist in the education and training of staff within the networks, and organize team meetings (Goessler et al, 2011; Sahin et al, 2009).…”

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Hospital-Based Case Management Model for Child Protection Teams in Taiwan: An Action Research Approach

Chen

Chang

et al. 2022

Journal of Nursing Research

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Background Hospital-based child protection teams play an important role in the multidisciplinary assessment, treatment, care, and rehabilitation of abused children and their families. However, the process by which these teams are built and promoted has not been explored adequately in the literature. Purpose This study was developed to examine the process used to promote child protection team case management and to evaluate the related results. Methods An action research model was adopted in this study. The participants and the investigator were members of a child protection team at a medical center in southern Taiwan. Qualitative and quantitative assessments were used to identify problems related to organizational structure, intervention procedures, and evaluation effectiveness. Thereafter, the study program was implemented, and the results were evaluated. Content analysis of the qualitative data, including transcribed interviews with external benchmark members and members of the hospital's team and text entries from the investigator's reflective journal, was conducted. Quantitative data, including monitoring indicators for team case management, were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results Three important concepts emerged related to changes in the promotion of case management by hospital child protection teams. These included formulation of a team operation model through visits to benchmark hospitals, establishment of the case management and monitoring mechanism based on team consensus, and expansion of collaboration with external agencies through the establishment of a child and adolescent protection medical regional integration center. The results of the promotion process were affected by factors that included member willingness, teamwork, hospital support, and national policy. Conclusions/Implications for Practice Use of the hospital child protection team case management model developed in this study was shown to facilitate the provision of consultation services, integrate the opinions and resources of experts from various fields, and allow the timely provision of acute care, follow-up family environment support, and social resources required by children and their family members. These measures help prevent the reoccurrence of child abuse and enable children to grow up healthily and free from violence.

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