Comment on Cross, Fine, Jones, and Walsh (2012): Do Mental Health Professionals Who Serve on/with Child Advocacy Centers Experience Role Conflict?

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Cross, Fine, Jones, and Walsh's (20124. Cross , T. P. , Fine , J. E. , Jones , L. M. and Walsh , W. A. 2012 . Mental health professionals in children's advocacy centers: Is there role conflict? . Journal of Child Sexual Abuse , 21 ( 1 ) : 91 - 108 . [Taylor & Francis Online], [PubMed]View all references) article “Mental Health Professionals in Children's Advocacy Centers: Is There Role Conflict?” challenges two recent publications' criticisms that child advocacy centers create role conflict for mental health professionals and explains how child advocacy centers actually work, describing the different roles for mental health professionals who participate in them. This commentary points out that more precise data would have helped to specifically address the critics' concerns. Furthermore, professional ethics and licensure issues may have served as an additional but unacknowledged check on the “spillover effect” that the critics have alleged comes with being associated with prosecution. This commentary also highlights three main strengths of the Cross and colleagues' article.View full textDownload full textKeywordschild advocacy centers, role conflict, mental health professionalsRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2012.661695