Case Coordination

Case Coordination

One of the most important tasks for the therapist in the treatment of the mother in the incest family is to coordinate the treatment with other intervention systems that are involved with the family, especially the legal system. The point has been made earlier that the families in which children have been sexually abused are, by definition, affected by both civil and criminal justice systems. Mental health treatment is but one in an array of systems that become involved with children and families once a report has been made of suspected child sexual abuse. Consider the following example.