ABSTRACT
In this chapter we shall present the theoretical principles which formed the basis of our approach and then describe how we applied them in our project to review the inquiry reports.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
As a group of practitioners from varied professional backgrounds working in a child mental health team, we drew on a number of conceptual frameworks to guide our practice, including psychoanalytic, cognitive, communication and systemic theories. Systemic theory, as well as being an important body of ideas in its own right, also provided an overall framework linking the other theories and helped us make sense of interpersonal, group and institutional functioning.
