RE: multidisciplinary teams

["Hollows, Anne E" <A.E.Hollows@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear colleagues
I am currently evaluating a multi disciplinary children's team - fraught with methodological and political difficulties - but I do
have quite a lot of literature from the UK where this sort of thing is taking off like wildfire.
I will try to put topgether some references over the next few days, (am out of my office most of this week) but meanwhile you may
like to look at the UK government web page www.everychildmatters.gov.uk  and try to get at the reports of the national evaluation
of pathfinder children's trusts which is being undertaken by the University of East Anglia - it is a major evaluative study of
over 30 developmental projects over three years and a couple of reports are on the web page. If you follow the link in the middle
right box on the fron page to childrens trust pathfinders you should get there. There are also a number of narrative accounts
about what appears to work in developing multi disciplinary teams. 
 
Anne
 
 
Dr Anne Hollows
Principal Lecturer / Child and Family Research Coordinator 
Centre for Health and Social Care Research 
Sheffield Hallam University
Collegiate Crescent Sheffield
S10 2BP
tel +44(0) 114 2252369
email a.e.hollows@shu.ac.uk
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/hsc/

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From: owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu on behalf of Joan Crowley
Sent: Mon 14/11/2005 18:38
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Re: multidisciplinary teams



Dr. Jackson,
I really wish I could help with references, but I'm afraid that you are
going to run into what I've found in the area--little or no research. 
In fact, I'd love to see what you come up with, if you can take the
time to e-mail me.  I suspect that others on this list are in the same
situation.

There is an unpublished evaluation of a Children's Safehouse in
Albuquerque, which showed that the Safehouse did NOT actually reduce
the number of interviews to which the children were subjected, contrary
to the whole purpose of the facilities.  It was done several years ago,
and the program had not been in place very long, so I don't know if the
results would generalize.   I talked to one of the researchers on the
project, so I don't have a manuscript.

I am tempted to brainstorm about possible outcome measures, but I'm
sure you've thought of all of them, and I'm just putting off work. :)

Joan Crowley
New Mexico State University

On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Jackson, Shelly L *HS wrote:

> I am developing an evaluation of Charlottesville's (Va) new Child
> Advocacy Center (CAC).  I have a logic model that includes a section
> on case review which is primarily about the multidisciplinary team
> (MDT).  I wrote an evaluation guidebook for CACs several years ago
> that includes a section on MDTs, but I find it falls short of what I'd
> like to learn (it focuses more on MDT satisfaction with the CAC). 
> I've recently done another lit search and find extensive MDT articles
> in other fields (e.g., medical) but continue to find very few in this
> field.  I'd be interested in references to anything on MDTs in the
> child maltreatment arena, published or unpublished, and whether there
> are any instruments (standardized or otherwise) that have been used
> with MDTs (e.g., issues of trust, development of MDTs, efficiency
> issues, etc).  Thanks.    
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Shelly Jackson
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Psychiatric Medicine
> Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
> P.O. Box 800660
> University of Virginia
> Charlottesville, VA  22908-0660
> 434/924-8309
> 434/924-5788
> slj4u@virginia.edu
>  
>
Joan Crowley
Department of Criminal Justice
New Mexico State University
MSC 3487
P. O. Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001