| Abstract: | Bringing together two distinct professional systems such as adult mental health and child protection challenges our strategies for making effective working together/working in partnership arrangements. And yet failures to make these arrangements increase the risk for children who may be suffering or likely to suffer significant harm as an outcome of their parents'/carers' mental health problems. This paper offers an analysis of the challenges inherent in bringing these systems together at the assessment interface, and offers some insights into the contribution each system can make to an integrated assessment process for children and their families. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
