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Working together for whose benefit?
Author(s) -
RICHES PETER
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1988.tb00344.x
Subject(s) - sexual abuse , task (project management) , discipline , work (physics) , criminology , child abuse , sociology , psychology , public relations , engineering ethics , political science , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medicine , social science , engineering , management , environmental health , economics , mechanical engineering
SUMMARY. Lack of multi‐disciplinary cooperation was seen by the Cleveland Inquiry as one of the major causes of what went wrong. The need for the many different professionals to work together in child abuse has been stressed many times before, but in sexual abuse matters the task, seems particularly daunting. This article reviews the traditional barriers to cooperation, applies them to sex abuse and suggesfs ways of beginning to overcome them