Services
Mental Health - Policy
Child Welfare and MH Specialized
|CHILD WELFARE AND MENTAL HEALTH: Cross-training and Team Process
Day 3
December 3, 2003
Green Lake, Wisconsin
SPECIALIZED SERVICES
Jon S. Matthew
1. Mental health practitioner as specialist
The term specialist is a complex construct. The meaning of specialist is developed, rather than given, so we must consider the various aspects of this development to be able to understand what we are talking about when we say that mental health practice is a specialty.
Green Lake Training SB and UOA
|CHILD WELFARE AND MENTAL HEALTH: Cross training and team process
Day 3
December 3, 2003
Green Lake, Wisconsin
STRENGTHS, BARRIERS, AND USE OF AUTHORITY
Jon S. Matthew
Child Welfare Summary
|SUMMARY
Day 1 and Day 2 meetings
Child Welfare and Mental Health -- Cross-training and team process
I. Day 1-- Child Welfare
A. Federal Law
1. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA, 1974)
Delineates the key principles guiding child protection
2. Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997)
a. Safety
Children have a right to live in an environment free from abuse and neglect
b. Permanence
Factor Practice
|I. Mental health professionals as specialists
A. Specializing in treatment for people with mental health problems
1. Anxiety
2. Depression
3. Psychosis
4. Conduct problems
5. Characterological troubles (personality disorders)
6. Psychosomatic illnesses
B. Diagnostic nomenclature
1. DSM IV TR diagnostic categories
2. Multiple axis system
Axis 1. Clinical disorders
Axis 2. Personality disorders
Mental retardation