| Mental health professionals in children’s advocacy centers: is there role conflict? |
| Summary: Argues against claims that children’s advcoacy centres have created role conflict for mental health professionals because of their work with criminal justice and child protection professionals in children’s advocacy centres as part of a coordinated response to child abuse. States that children’s advocacy centre practice is misunderstood and the risk of role conflict is overestimated, although it is impossible to rule out the possibility. Concludes that, given the benefits of the involvement of mental health professionals in children’s advocacy centres, undue concern about role conflict would not be in children’s best interests. |
| Publication details: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Volume 21 Issue 1, 2012 pp 91-108 |
| Authors: Cross, Theodore P., et al. |
