Approaches to assessment and intervention across four types of child and family welfare services

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 356-364

  Darlington, Yvonne ^a   Healy, Karen ^a   Feeney, Judith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Child protection; Interagency collaboration; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849084744     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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