Understanding Roles and Improving Reporting and Response Relationships Across Professional Boundaries

Goad, John T.

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“…Inter-agency cooperation was a dominant topic in all focus group interviews, especially in relation to CPS. In agreement with previous research [76,[89][90][91][99][100][101], this study also demonstrates that poor cooperation with CPS can make professionals more hesitant to report their suspicions to CPS, Furthermore, the results suggest that cooperation with other child welfare organizations, including General Practitioners and teachers, can facilitate or impede professionals' adherence to guidelines.…”

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“…Many reasons have been reported in literature that can explain why professionals do not recognize CAN or respond adequately to CAN concerns, including poor knowledge of CAN symptoms [87], uncertainty whether there is enough reasonable cause to suspect CAN [106,131], fear of making mistakes [132], poor perceived abilities to respond [108,133,134], fear to lose the relationship of trust with the family [133], adverse experiences with reporting a case to child protective services [90,99,100,113,131], not integrating use of guidelines into work routines [130] and lack of time [133,135,136].…”

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Fragile, please handle with care : understanding and supporting professionals' response to suspicions of child abuse and neglect

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Understanding and supporting professionals' response to suspicions of child abuse and neglect FRAGILE, PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING PROFESSIONALS' RESPONSE TO SUSPICIONS OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECTReferences 181 Summary 193Samenvatting 201 Dankwoord (Acknowledgements) 209 Curriculum Vitae 217Publications and other contributions 221 CHAPTER 1General introduction Child maltreatment traumatises millions of children across the globe [4]. A meta-analysis that included articles published between 1980 and 2008 on the prevalence of child abuse and neglect reported the following overall estimated rates for self-report studies that mainly assessed lifetime prevalence rates: 12.7% for sexual abuse, 22.6% for physical abuse, 36.3% for emotional abuse, 16.3% for physical neglect and 18.4% for emotional neglect. For studies using informants that mainly assessed one-year prevalence rates, the estimated prevalence rates were 0,4% for sexual abuse, and 0,3% for both physical and emotional abuse [4]. Child abuse and neglect in the NetherlandsChild abuse and neglect remains a major societal problem in high-income countries, as a considerable number of children continue to be maltreated and exploited [5]. In the Netherlands, the following definition of child abuse and neglect is currently in use, officially documented in the Kindermishandeling, Veilig Thuis since 2015) on child abuse and neglect reports, and self-reports of students in secondary school. In 2016, the nation-wide prevalence study was limited to self-reports of secondary school students. In 2010, the overall estimated one-year prevalence was 3.4% based on the results of the informants study and the official registration of Veilig Thuis [7]. This prevalence rate is 0.4% higher than found in 2005 [8]. In 2003, the yearly report of the Dutch Advice and Reporting Centre [9] showed the organisation was consulted 47,000 times, and investigated 20,000 suspected cases (0.6% of all Dutch children in 2013 [10]). One-year prevalence rates based on self-report study alone remained stable between 2005 and 2010, 9.9% of students between eleven and seventeen years old reported to have experienced child abuse and neglect [7,8]. The self-report study among secondary school students (in one of the first four years of secondary schools) performed in 2016 (6.5%) showed a decline of the one-year prevalence rate compared to 2005 and 2010 [11].In 2010, the most prevalent types of child maltreatment were physical, emotional and educational neglect, i.e. not attending to children's academic needs. Furthermore, the study concluded that almost a quarter of victims underwent sexual and/or physical abuse in 2010. Compared to 2005, emotional neglect (including being a witness of domestic violence) and educational neglect were reported more often, while sexual abuse and physical neglect were reported less often [7]. Causes and consequencesIn the last two decades, research has increased public knowledge about risk factors and protective factors of child abuse and neglect. It b...

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Fragile, please handle with care : understanding and supporting professionals' response to suspicions of child abuse and neglect

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“…Therefore, the notification authority in countries where modern child protection systems have been instituted is the institution in charge of Social Services. The Social Services Institution reports criminally important cases to the police and prosecution office (2,16). Thus, child protection measures are taken in the early stage, treatment and rehabilitation services are given in the most rapid way to the abused individuals and the law enforcement officers are occupied by a very small portion of the cases.…”

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“…Most of these cases in Western countries are examined in centers where physicians, social service specialists, psychologists and even law enforcement officers work under the same structure called child protection center or child protection clinic. Thus, both medical and legal processes are performed in the fastes way (16). In this way, all cases are examined similarly and the most accurate reports are prepared in a frame of protocol before injury healing occurs.…”

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Sum maryChild abuse and neglect is an important public health problem that recurs unless it is recognized early and protection measures are implemented timely. Multidisciplinary collaboration of related professionals is of paramount importance in assessing and managing cases of child abuse and neglect. The father of the twins presented in this paper who was employed in odd jobs as the sole bread-winner of his family of five and abused his wife also physically abused his twin children under one year of age. Although the physicians reported these children to law enforcement, the family concealed the abuse and neither the physicians nor the law enforcement reported this family to child protective services. As a consequence, a picture of recurrence of abuse with a cumulative negative medico-social outcome was observed. Since the mother declined to testify on the father abusing his children during the court proceedings, the father returned to the family after a brief incarceration. Child protective measures were established only after the forensic physician interfered with the proceedings on a voluntary basis. This presentation aimed at reviewing the risk factors related to abuse and associated findings and assessment steps of abuse. In addition, these cases confirmed that every child abuse case that is missed by physicians and mismanaged legally has the potential to lead to severe, chronic abuse. Therefore, it is important that the family, law, healthcare services, and social services should collaborate in diagnosis and management of these cases. (Turk Arch Ped 2011; 46: 337-41)

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“…As Mr Goad, former Illinois Deputy Director of Child and Family Services, discussed extensively in his article, 4 health care providers and CPS do not interact or collaborate well. There are confidentiality issues: once the initial reporting period is past, families need to sign consent forms for CPS to let providers know what's happening, and families that are upset and angry are often not in the mood to sign consent forms.…”

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Doing the Right Thing: A Primary Care Pediatrician's Perspective on Child Abuse Reporting

McCarthy

2008

Pediatrics

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The Child Abuse Recognition Experience Study (CARES) demonstrated that primary care physicians and nurse practitioners who treat injured children find the decision of whether to report suspected abuse difficult. This commentary briefly summarizes and responds to the papers presented at the Child Abuse Recognition, Research, and Education Translation (CARRET) Conference. The commentator traces her own changing views of child protective services as she became more involved in a multidisciplinary assessment team. Pediatricians are called on to advocate for more effective collaborations to better protect vulnerable maltreated children.

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Understanding Roles and Improving Reporting and Response Relationships Across Professional Boundaries

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Fragile, please handle with care : understanding and supporting professionals' response to suspicions of child abuse and neglect

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Doing the Right Thing: A Primary Care Pediatrician's Perspective on Child Abuse Reporting

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