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HOW MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM CAN WORK WITH ABUSIVE PARENT

Presenter: Sanphasit Koompraphant

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In many cases of child abuse and neglect, abusive parents will not cooperate with professionals in promoting the child safeguard and welfare. Intervention to this type of case needs multidisciplinary approach to fix the problem.

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To control behaviors of those parents, multidisciplinary team has to find all facts concerning with biological health, mental health, their behaviors and parenting capacities/ family relationship which caused child maltreatment.

After finishing the needs assessment of the child and the family, legal services can be applied in harmony with health services and social services to bring back the good family life, in particularly to change the abusive parent to be supportive parent who can promote safeguarding and welfare of their children.

To apply for the court orders or other legal interventions, the lawyer needs the consultation and suggestion from health professionals and social workers whether what services can be provided such as psychotherapy, family therapy, family recreation, parental skills training including emotional management skill of the parent, safety measures and probation. The lawyer needs a clear advice from other professionals on what condition and timeframe should be fixed in any services for the child and the family.

Sometimes, we do not need to place the child into foster care if the multidisciplinary team can apply legal services in harmony with health services and social services which means the team can really control the abusive parent and secure for the child safeguard and welfare through safety measures, probation program, psychotherapy, parental skills training and home visitation program.