ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the challenges faced by vulnerable children, young people, and their families, on a personal level and in the context of national statistics on childhood maltreatment. It draws on central concerns and make clear why therapeutic models fail to deliver solutions for clients with complex needs. Many of the children had been repeatedly referred to agencies but, following one or two clinic appointments, files would conclude with a "no-show" statement. The chapter offers an alternative framework in which professionals collaborate with a view to creating service delivery models that have genuine impact. The young people are too high-risk to be treated in a clinical setting through one-to-one or group psychotherapy. The menu is suffocatingly long, peppered with clinical self-righteousness as every framework claims supremacy. Collectively, and often collusively, they define their functions and actions in the context of their clinical training, overemphasising intellectuality over humaneness as the potency of the reparation.
