Samhandling mellom barnevern og psykisk helsevern for barn og unge – utfordringer og muligheter [Intersectoral collaboration between child welfare services and mental health care for children and adolescents in Norway – mapping current challenges]

Lauritzen, Camilla; Vis, Svein Arild; Fossum, Sturla

doi:10.15714/scandpsychol.4.e14

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“…In 2014, the Directorate of Health and the Directorate Children, Youth and Families established a Cooperation Forum for the CPS and Mental Health services, followed up by an official circular in 2015 giving guidelines on the collaboration between the Child and Adolescents Mental Health Service and CPS and the coordination of their respective services. However, a survey of this circular's impact in practice, showed that many practitioners were not aware of or familiar with the existence of the circular, implying further implementation work (Lauritzen et al, 2017).…”

Section: Several Missing Links In the Cpsmentioning

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In the Best Interest of the Child: the Norwegian Approach to Child Protection

Melinder

Hagen²

2021

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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In the present paper, we discuss three challenges with the Norwegian Child Protective System (CPS) that might have contributed to the recent criticism from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). First, how to balance the rights of the child with those of the parents. Second, the psychological field’s influence on the interpretation of what constitutes the best interest of the child, and third we describe several missing links in the CPS work. Throughout the paper, we find indications of a well-developed Act, but a less optional CPS practice. Likewise, we find evidence for a narrow interpretation of the best interest of the child related to CPS and expert psychologists’ application of attachment theory, and several organizational and educational shortcomings in the area of CPS. We conclude that the child is not fully seen as a legal subject in the eyes of the ECtHR, and that more research into CPS measures and organization are needed to better deliver adequate assistance to vulnerable families.

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Section: Several Missing Links In the Cpsmentioning

confidence: 99%

In the Best Interest of the Child: the Norwegian Approach to Child Protection

Melinder

Hagen²

2021

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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“…A survey of this report's impact on the practitioners' ability to cooperate showed that among those who had applied the recommendations in the report, cooperation was facilitated. However, a substantial proportion of the participants in the survey were not familiar with the existence of the recommendations (Lauritzen, Vis, & Fossum, ). This implies that while the report seems to target the challenges of day‐to‐day cooperation between services, more work has to be done on the implementation of the recommendations in the services concerned.…”

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Children placed in alternate care in Norway: A review of mental health needs and current official measures to meet them

Lehmann

Kayed

2018

Int J Soc Welfare

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Children and youth placed in alternate care have often suffered detrimental care conditions before placement and the rupture of attachment bonds both before and during alternate care. In this article, we review the knowledge base on the prevalence of mental disorders, and access to mental health services, of children and youth in alternate care in Norway. Due to the increasing knowledge of this group's needs, official measures are now taken to improve service provision and cooperation between types and levels of services for children and youth in alternate care. We review the recent Norwegian official reports aiming to improve access to mental health services for children placed in alternate care and discuss their recommendations in light of empirical findings from our own research.

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Interagency collaboration for early identification and follow-up of mental health problems in residential youth care: evaluation of a collaboration model

Kaasbøll

Ådnanes

Paulsen

et al. 2020

Nordic Social Work Research

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Despite high levels of mental disorders among young people living in residential youth care (RYC) institutions, only a small percentage of these children receive help from mental health services. The aim of the present study is to explore the usefulness of an inter-agency collaboration model from the perspective of service providers, and to investigate factors that promote and hinder effective inter-agency collaboration around early identification and follow up of mental problems and disorders among youth in residential care. A purposive sample of 16 professionals in three RYC institutions and related child and adolescent mental health services and child welfare services that were involved in piloting the collaboration model was recruited. Semi-structured individual and group interviews were conducted, and a thematic analysis was conducted to identify key themes. The results suggest that the collaboration model promoted increased awareness on mental health issues and a greater systematic inter-agency collaborative effort in assessing and following up the mental health of children and adolescents in RYC institutions. However, there were major challenges related to central elements of the collaboration model; the conduction of the multidisciplinary meeting within the deadline of three weeks, and participation of child welfare services-providers at the multidisciplinary meeting. Further dissemination of the collaboration model merits further consideration of the choice of screening assessment battery due to the lack of participation from teachers and parents, the time limit of three weeks and measures to increase participation from the municipal child welfare services.

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Samhandling mellom barnevern og psykisk helsevern for barn og unge – utfordringer og muligheter [Intersectoral collaboration between child welfare services and mental health care for children and adolescents in Norway – mapping current challenges]

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

In the Best Interest of the Child: the Norwegian Approach to Child Protection

In the Best Interest of the Child: the Norwegian Approach to Child Protection

Children placed in alternate care in Norway: A review of mental health needs and current official measures to meet them

Interagency collaboration for early identification and follow-up of mental health problems in residential youth care: evaluation of a collaboration model

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