TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Child Maltreatment: The Collaboration of Child welfare, Mental Health, and Judicial Systems
JO  - Child abuse and neglect
A1  - Butler, Stephen
A1  - Atkinson, Leslie
A1  - Magnatta, Michael
A1  - Hood, Eric
SP  - 355
EP  - 362
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
N2  - The alliance of child welfare, mental health, and legal systems has received little empirical attention, despite the magnitude of its impact on children and families. We examined the congruence of child protection agencies legal positions, court clinic recommendations, and judicial dispositions in a sample of 59 contested child maltreatment cases. Placement recommendations/decisions among all three systems were highly correlated, although the relationship was not so strong as to undermine the independence of any one system. Where there was disagreement between successive evaluations, it was in the direction of enhancing family integrity and parental access rights. We advanced three hypotheses to account for our findings: (a) changes in successive recommendations reflect the increasing sophistication of the assessment process; (b) changes reflect increasing distance from the family's ecology and are therefore increasingly ill informed; and (c) the changes are purely probabilistic, reflecting a drift toward the societal status quo. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Child Abuse & Neglect, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Elsevier Science)  Justice System Intervention Mental Health Intervention Social Services Intervention Child Abuse Intervention Child Protection Domestic Violence Intervention 10-03<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0145-2134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -