What is it about?
The article reviews the literature to better understand the evidence for multi-disciplinary teams responding to physical and sexual abuse. This review highlights the strength of evidence for these types of teams in improving criminal justice and service delivery outcomes, but highlights the lack of evidence of these approaches in improving child and family outcomes.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
This review updated a previous article that was purely about Child Advocacy Centres. This search took a broader view to include all kinds of teams responding to allegations of physical and sexual abuse.
Perspectives
This paper was an important part of working towards a comprehensive theory of change for MDTs, which informed how we went about undertaking an evaluation of such a team in Western Australia.
Dr James L Herbert
University of South Australia
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Better Together? A Review of Evidence for Multi-Disciplinary Teams Responding to Physical and Sexual Child Abuse, Trauma Violence & Abuse, March 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1524838017697268.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
