TY - JOUR
T1 - Decision making by the child protection team of a medical center
AU - Benbenishty, Kami
AU - Chen, Wendy
PY - 2003/11
Y1 - 2003/11
N2 - The study in this article examined the decision-making process of a child protection team (CPT) charged with reporting suspected child abuse in a medical center in Israel. The authors focused on the decision whether to conclude that a child was at imminent risk and whether to refer the case to a child protection officer. The authors analyzed the content of 139 case files of the children examined by the CPT in two consecutive years, recorded the case characteristics, and correlated them with the decision in a series of univariate and multivariate analyses. The findings indicate that the characteristics of the family were stronger predictors of the decision than the characteristics of the child and of the event that brought the child to the hospital. Implications of the findings and future research issues are discussed.
AB - The study in this article examined the decision-making process of a child protection team (CPT) charged with reporting suspected child abuse in a medical center in Israel. The authors focused on the decision whether to conclude that a child was at imminent risk and whether to refer the case to a child protection officer. The authors analyzed the content of 139 case files of the children examined by the CPT in two consecutive years, recorded the case characteristics, and correlated them with the decision in a series of univariate and multivariate analyses. The findings indicate that the characteristics of the family were stronger predictors of the decision than the characteristics of the child and of the event that brought the child to the hospital. Implications of the findings and future research issues are discussed.
KW - Child abuse and neglect
KW - Child protection team
KW - Decision making
KW - Hospitals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=1542437391&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/hsw/28.4.284
DO - 10.1093/hsw/28.4.284
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C2 - 14679707
AN - SCOPUS:1542437391
SN - 0360-7283
VL - 28
SP - 284
EP - 292
JO - Health and Social Work
JF - Health and Social Work
IS - 4
ER -