Mental health practitioners typically purchase malpractice insurance in order to protect themselves from claims and lawsuits seeking [...]
What is the effect, if any, of your state’s emancipation of minor laws on your duty as a mandated reporter of child abuse? The answer [...]
Counselors and therapists may be employed by any number of business entities (e.g., nonprofit organizations, sole proprietorships, [...]
From an ethical and legal point of view, a mental health practitioner should keep that amount of records that is consistent with sound [...]
The issues that are discussed in this article are not new, nor are they limited to occurring in the current economic condition existing [...]
Do You Know Your ABC’s…? A. Advertising that one has been “in practice for seven years,” when in fact the person has been licensed [...]
I thought I might have a bit of fun going back to my ABCs and that you might find some of these brief items helpful. The thought here [...]
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, or Covid-19, the delivery of medical and mental health services via telehealth is garnering [...]
In the April 2020 issue of this Avoiding Liability Bulletin, I asked twenty questions on a variety of topics. My answers to those [...]
The purpose of this issue of the Bulletin is to review aspects of practice that may raise questions or dilemmas for practitioners and [...]
One area of practice that can create a dilemma for practitioners is when a minor patient informs the treating practitioner that she is [...]
One of the common complaints against practitioners who are allowed by state law to perform child custody evaluations comes from the [...]
