Cover1
Title7
Credits8
Acknowledgements9
Table of contents11
List of figures21
List of tables23
List of abbreviations and acronyms25
Introduction27
References32
Part 1 / Overall state of play35
Chapter 1 / Children’s Advocacy Centres and child forensic interview protocols37
Chapter 2 / The forensic medical evaluation and the role of the medical practitioner in a Child and Youth Advocacy Centre: A Canadian perspective59
Chapter 3 / Providing support to child witnesses inside a Child Advocacy Centre setting81
Chapter 4 / From dissenting to conforming hybridity—Experiences from a justice sector-affiliated Barnahus model103
Chapter 5 / Barnahus in Ireland: Problematizing power, culture and collaboration125
Part 2 / Providing services for specific cases and social realities145
Chapter 6 / Access, inclusion, equity: Creating a strategy for a culturally responsive Child and Youth Advocacy Centre (CYAC) through inquiry and action147
Chapter 7 / “Expanding” the practice of extended forensic interviews: Addressing controversial issues with field professionals in program development167
Chapter 8 / Working with cases of sibling sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community: The Jerusalem Child Advocacy Center model185
Chapter 9 / Reaching for the SKY: Lessons from the Safe Kids & Youth (SKY) Coordinated Response in adapting a Child and Youth Advocacy Centre model for a rural region205
Part 3 / Prevention and therapeutic services in the context of Child Advocacy Centre models227
Chapter 10 / Prevention education programs in Child Advocacy Centres: An examination of a program model and program development in Canada229
Chapter 11 / Increasing access and decreasing barriers to mental health services at Child Advocacy Centres through telehealth253
Chapter 12 / A Children’s Advocacy Centre comprehensive initiative to increase engagement with children’s mental health services279
Chapter 13 / Innovative responses to problematic sexual behaviour of youth: Children’s Advocacy Centres in North America301
Part 4 / Evaluation and research into Child Advocacy Centre models327
Chapter 14 / Evaluating and monitoring the implementation of the first Child Advocacy Centre in the Quebec City region: When evaluation goes hand-in-hand with the institution’s activities329
Chapter 15 / Key findings from a 20-month evaluation of a co-located multidisciplinary team within an urban Canadian Child & Youth Advocacy Centre349
Chapter 16 / Utilization of therapy at a Child Advocacy Centre following suspected/substantiated child sexual abuse375
Conclusion401
References408
Biographical Notes411
In the same collection423
Back cover428