“…For this reason, we believe future research should, on the one hand, focus on filling these informational gaps in order to take informed decisions about the utilization of child maltreatment instruments, and on the other, we suggest the development of instruments that focus on early detection and prevention of child maltreatment. Additionally, developing interdisciplinary tools in which professionals from each field can add information (as doctors, social worker, psychologists, police) could constitute a huge advance in speed and reliability of child maltreatment assessment, as although psychometrically correct, child maltreatment assessment can greatly benefit from this multidisciplinary approach (Noll et al, 2018; Schertz et al, 2018), and being able to access a child record though a program in real time can solve mandated reporting issues; and lastly, incorporating protective factors in child maltreatment assessment can constitute a chance to detect strong points of the child and/or the family and tailor future interventions (Sprague-Jones et al, 2020).…”