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The Involvement of Clinical Psychologists in Child Protection Work
Author(s) -
McKenzie Karen,
Cossar Jill
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.2205
Subject(s) - child protection , agency (philosophy) , work (physics) , specialty , psychology , key (lock) , relation (database) , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , nursing , psychiatry , computer security , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , database , computer science
Key Practitioner Messages: Most clinical psychologists are involved in child protection and see the key advantages as: increased protection of children; provision of psychological expertise and evidence‐based practice. Identified barriers to this work were difficulties due to multi‐agency work and limited time and resources. Most participants rated themselves as at least ‘medium’ on confidence, motivation, interest, skills and experience in relation to child protection, with those working in the child specialty having significantly higher ratings.