Interagency collaboration between child protection and mental health services: Practices, attitudes and barriers

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1085-1098

  Darlington, Yvonne ^a   Feeney, Judith A ^a   Rixon, Kylie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child protection; Collaboration; Interagency; Mental health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD WELFARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STAFF TRAINING;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 26944499420     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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