Child Welfare Professionals and Incest Families by Ingrid K Thompson-Cooper

Author:Ingrid K Thompson-Cooper [Thompson-Cooper, Ingrid K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Public Policy, Social Policy
ISBN: 9781856288804
Google: QZlHAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2001-01-15T03:26:31+00:00

Assessment interviews

It is said to be good practice in the initial assessment for the victim and perpetrator to be interviewed separately and without other family members being present (Cormier and Cooper, 1982, Sgroi, 1982). This allows them to disclose more fully and with less emotional discomfort and trauma. Social services were the only professionals to interview the victim and perpetrator together (with other family members). In some cases, the only interview the social worker conducted with the perpetrator was together with the victim, sometimes with another family member (usually a spouse) present as well. This may explain in part why so often the social worker did not appear to have obtained details of the sexual abuse. Assessments will be discussed further in relation to the different decisions.

Table 6.7 displays the decisions taken by the DYP in respect of the victim, siblings and perpetrator at various stages, some of which were taken and acted upon before the initial report (containing the major assessment and recommendations) had been received.33 It can be surmised that to some extent the whereabouts of the perpetrator might have some bearing on the decisions taken at the time of the first report (three not known). In the cases of 53 victims, the perpetrator was still living in the same house as the victim and in 39 he/she was not (three not known). In 14 of the 39 cases he had left voluntarily and in 25 either the mother had left home or he had not been living with the victim at the time of disclosure.

Table 6.7 Decisions made after referral prior to first report or at first report for victim and perpetrator - Canada

Decisions

Before 1st report

At 1st report

At 2nd or subsequent reports

Total

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