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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 7
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Comment on Cross, Fine, Jones, and Walsh (2012): Do Mental Health Professionals Who Serve on/with Child Advocacy Centers Experience Role Conflict?
Friend, Colleen
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, v21 n2 p233-239 2012
Cross, Fine, Jones, and Walsh's (2012) article "Mental Health Professionals in Children's Advocacy Centers: Is There Role Conflict?" challenges two recent publications' criticisms that child advocacy centers create role conflict for mental health professionals and explains how child advocacy centers actually work, describing the different roles for mental health professionals who participate in them. This commentary points out that more precise data would have helped to specifically address the critics' concerns. Furthermore, professional ethics and licensure issues may have served as an additional but unacknowledged check on the "spillover effect" that the critics have alleged comes with being associated with prosecution. This commentary also highlights three main strengths of the Cross and colleagues' article.
Descriptors: Mental Health Workers, Role Conflict, Mental Health, Child Advocacy, Role, Evidence, Ethics, Court Litigation, Law Enforcement, Child Abuse
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Language: English
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