Reporting Cases of Child Maltreatment: Decision-Making Processes of Family Therapists in Illinois

摘要: This study advances the research on decision-making concerning child maltreatment by providing descriptions of both process and outcome therapist decision-making. Results indicated that about involves therapist-specific factors such as worldview assumptions, ethical principles, prior clinical life experience; situational including type severity abuse, amount evidence presented, client characteristics age personal history; interactional cooperation willingness part adult clients to comply with therapist. A contextual framework for explicitly consideration therapist-specific, situational, is proposed enhance