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ERIC Number: EJ956515
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1053-8712
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Mental Health Professionals in Children's Advocacy Centers: Is There Role Conflict?
Cross, Theodore P.; Fine, Janet E.; Jones, Lisa M.; Walsh, Wendy A.
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, v21 n1 p91-108 2012
Two recent chapters in professional books have criticized children's advocacy centers for creating role conflict for mental health professionals because of their work with criminal justice and child protection professionals in children's advocacy centers as part of a coordinated response to child abuse. This article argues that these critiques misunderstand children's advocacy center practice and overestimate the risk of role conflict. Children's advocacy center standards set a boundary between forensic interviewing and therapy, which in most children's advocacy centers are done by separate professionals and never by the same professional for a given child. Many mental health professionals serve children's advocacy centers as consultants with no treatment role. Children's advocacy center therapists are rarely involved in investigation, and their participation in multidisciplinary teams focuses on children's interests and well-being.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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