Robbie Duschinsky

Sep 16, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Molly O'Connor |Charlotte Wilson |Barry Coughlan |Robbie Duschinsky

Key Practitioner Messages Clinical psychologists saw their role in child safeguarding as threefold: offering a provisional formulation or explanatory discourse for the families' current circumstances, tending to their mental health needs by offering psychological support, and initiating change in behaviour. Psychologists were sometimes reluctant to provide support to families in high-risk cases whilst there was a lack of safety or family stability for the child.