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Ethical Considerations involved in Seeking the Views of Young People and their Parents on Medical Reports received following a Child Protection Medical Examination
Author(s) -
Higgs Sarah,
Finlay Fiona
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.2267
Subject(s) - copying , general partnership , psychology , child protection , social psychology , developmental psychology , medical education , medicine , nursing , law , political science
Key Practitioner Messages Copying correspondence and reports to parents is one approach to the principle of professionals working in partnership with parents. There is currently little research on what constitutes good practice in copying correspondence and reports to parents of maltreated children; a poor response rate limited the ability of this project to contribute to this. The difficulties encountered in obtaining ethical approval for this study have implications for other researchers in the child protection field.