5.4 Role of Child Psychologist and Social Worker

The system's twin professionals (the bench's own members): The child psychologist: the child's mental-state assessment; the custodial-interrogation's support (the trauma-informed questioning); the counselling (the correction homes' services); the disposition's expert input (the risk-and-need assessment); The social worker (the social-service provider): the social study report's author (the family-school-circumstance investigation); the home-and-community liaison; the supervision- and-aftercare (the probation-type follow-up); the diversion's administration (the family-and- community referrals). The design's meaning: the bench's multidisciplinary composition IS the juvenile court's difference — the law-and-the-social-science judging together (the welfare model's insight preserved inside the due-process frame).