TY  - SER
AU  - Herbert, James L.
AU  - Bromfield, Leah
TI  - Better together? : : A review of evidence for multi-disciplinary teams responding to physical and sexual child abuse
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage, 
KW  - CHILD ABUSE
KW  - CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
KW  - CHILD PROTECTION
KW  - INTERAGENCY COLLABORATION
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - LITERATURE REVIEWS
KW  - POLICE
KW  - POLICE PROCEDURES
KW  - TREATMENT
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N1  - Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 2019, 20(2): 214-228
N2  - "Multi-Disciplinary teams (MDTs) have often been presented as the key to dealing with a number of intractable problems associated with responding to allegations of physical and sexual child abuse. While these approaches have proliferated internationally, researchers have complained of the lack of a specific evidence base identifying the processes and structures supporting multi-disciplinary work and how these contribute to high-level outcomes. This systematic search of the literature aims to synthesize the existing state of knowledge on the effectiveness of MDTs. This review found that overall there is reasonable evidence to support the idea that MDTs are effective in improving criminal justice and mental health responses compared to standard agency practices. The next step toward developing a viable evidence base to inform these types of approaches seems to be to more clearly identify the mechanisms associated with effective MDTs in order to better inform how they are planned and implemented." (Authors' abstract). Record #5578
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524838017697268
ER  -