Collaboration on critical questions in child psychotherapy: A model linking referral, assessment, intervention, and evaluation

This article proposes that social workers can conduct effective child intervention through the application of a developmental cognitive and social approach that highlights common ground between all mental health professionals, regardless of theoretical orientation. By presenting a model of the psychotherapeutic process, the author calls attention to shared interdisciplinary modes of inquiry into individual child development. This model is intended to assist clinical social workers in identifying these basic shared assumptions in order to improve the outcomes of the therapeutic process during the referral, assessment, intervention, and evaluation stages.