Two innovations supporting the paradigm shift in Dutch multidisciplinary cross-sectoral collaboration - introducing the triage tool Safe Home (Veilig Thuis)

Linda Vogtländer

Independent expert interagency wraparound care serving abusive relationships

Linda Vogtländer is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with many years of experience in working with youth and families with anti-social behaviour, domestic violence and child abuse. Focus in her clinical work in forensic psychiatry is on disruptive behaviour disorders, relational violence, sibling sexual abuse, child abuse and family trauma. Together with Sander van Arum she developed a triage tool for domestic violence, child abuse and sexual abuse to support the Safe Home organizations to indicate the correct level of care to secure the safety of families, which is implemented nationwide. She developed and researched the CAST method (Collaboration of Agencies in Systems-based Structured Treatment) for structured decision-making, planning of interventions and collaboration of professionals with each other and with the family in cases of child abuse. She wrote an extensive report for the Court of Justice analysing the crime scenario and reviewing the literature on the effects of sexual child abuse at a very early age (before 24 months) on the children and their parents at the request of the court in the case of Robert M., a daycare center nurse in the Netherlands who repeatedly during  a period of nine months sexually abused sixty nine very young children.