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Child Abuse And Neglect: A Report on Seven Demonstration Projects*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2024

Frederick L. Ahearn Jr.
Frederick L. Ahearn Jr.*
Affiliation:
Community Organization and Social Planning. Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work, Chestnut Hill, Mass. United States of America.
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Abstract

The author presents the results of an experimental program initiated for the purposes of providing comprehensive psychiatric assistance to abused and neglected children and their families. Designed jointly by Massachusetts’ U.S.A. Departments of Mental Health and Social Services, the projects are also a demonstration of interagency case collaboration. The paper briefly describes the program philosophy, service delivery strategy, and staffing pattern. Through analysis of data of 332 families and 1,118 individuals treated in the first year, profiles of the abusing/neglecting family, their children, and the adult perpetrator of the situation are developed. Implications for mental health care, the cooperative endeavours of mental health and child welfare agencies, and difficulties in measuring treatment outcomes of this population are discussed.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Children Australia , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , 1983 , pp. 20 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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Footnotes

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Paper delivered at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association in San Francisco, California, April 2, 1982. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Karen J. Wilk, Program Evaluator, the unique and innovative contributions of the seven program directors, and the thoughtful suggestions of the staff of the M.A. Department of Mental Health.

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* Paper delivered at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association in San Francisco, California, April 2, 1982. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Karen J. Wilk, Program Evaluator, the unique and innovative contributions of the seven program directors, and the thoughtful suggestions of the staff of the M.A. Department of Mental Health.