Collaborative Intervention and Case Management

1. Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
Tenth Edition
Chapter 11
Collaborative Intervention
and Case Management
PowerPoint Lecture
Slides prepared by
Piljoo Kang, Ph.D.
Toccoa Falls College
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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
After studying this chapter, you should be able to
11.1 explain what the child advocacy movement is and
how it might benefit maltreated children.
11.2 outline the roles of the medical professionals who
might be involved in child maltreatment cases.
11.3 describe how law enforcement might be involved in
child abuse cases.

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Learning Objectives (2 of 2)
11.4 discuss how educational and mental health
professionals might be involved in child maltreatment
situations.
11.5 explain what is meant by case management and what
it involves.

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A Collaborative Approach: Child
Advocacy Centers
• Interdisciplinary approach: a variety of professionals
working together to help maltreated children and their
families.
• The Child Advocacy Centers:
– Provide child-friendly setting
– Multidisciplinary team provides competent and
culturally sensitive interviews, & evaluations.
– Coordinated and comprehensive intervention plan
& services are provided

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Professionals Involved in the Intervention
Process: The Medical Team
• Nurses and Nurse Practitioners are often the first medical
contact with the family; they can assess parent/child
interactions, obtain medical and developmental history,
provide parent training, and screen for risk factors,
including prenatally
• Physicians may report, substantiate, and/or consult on
maltreatment through X-rays, physical exams and other
diagnostic procedures.
• Medical Social Worker: provides treatment planning and
coordination after hospital discharge

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Professionals Involved in the
Intervention Process: The Legal Team
• Police officers’ roles vary state to state; they may take and
investigate reports, support protective service agencies,
respond to emergencies (child abandonment and severe
abuse or neglect), and look for runaways
• Abusive & neglectful parents are seldom arrested, except
when the injury to the child is extremely severe.

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Professionals Involved in the Intervention
Process: The Educational Team
• Teachers may hesitate to report in fear of damaging the
relationship with the child and/or the family
• Some schools designate one person, often a school
nurse, as the point person to interface with protective
services and protect the teacher’s relationship with child
• Administrators and Pupil Personnel Services (school
nurse, guidance counselor, psychologist) may also take
part in the Child Protection Team

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Professionals Involved in the Intervention
Process: The Mental Health Team
• Psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, &
therapists.
• Mandated reporters under the child abuse reporting
laws.
• Some argue that the reporting laws jeopardize the
therapeutic relationship between therapist and client.
• Provide valuable resources to protective service
agencies: validation, referral, & treatment.

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Professionals Involved in the Intervention
Process: A Total Team Approach
• Form a community-wide multidisciplinary team with
the medical, legal, educational, and mental health
professionals, including racial/cultural representatives of
the population served.
• Religious communities have been developing policies in
staff screening, reporting protocols, and training of
child abuse prevention
• Any member of a community may recognize and report
child maltreatment (some states mandate).

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Case Management and Planning
• Intervention must be a planned, purposeful, and
goal-directed activity.
• Case worker, with the family, develops goals and
helps the family to recognize the challenges.
• Case plans must be specific to determine
– what is needed
– time frame, for a point of reference & motivation
– the outcomes in 4 domains: child-level, parent,
family, & environment

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