Tag Archives: Avoiding Liability For Mental Health Professionals
KEEPING TREATMENT RECORDS – HOW MUCH?
From an ethical and legal point of view, a mental health practitioner should keep that amount of records that is consistent with sound [...]
Do You Know Your ABC’s…?
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 [...]
TELEHEALTH AND COVID 19 – Thoughts and Outlook
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, or Covid-19, the delivery of medical and mental health services via telehealth is garnering [...]
Answers to April Review
In the April 2020 issue of this Avoiding Liability Bulletin, I asked twenty questions on a variety of topics. My answers to those [...]
April Check-In: Review Your Practice
The purpose of this issue of the Bulletin is to review aspects of practice that may raise questions or dilemmas for practitioners and [...]
Child Abuse Reporting Issues
One area of practice that can create a dilemma for practitioners is when a minor patient informs the treating practitioner that she is [...]
Complaints Against Child Custody Evaluators
One of the common complaints against practitioners who are allowed by state law to perform child custody evaluations comes from the [...]
October’s True or False Answers – Part 2
In the October 2019 issue of this Bulletin, I asked twenty-five questions regarding various areas of practice (and the law) that may be [...]
October’s True or False Answers
Avoiding Liability Bulletin – November 2019 NOTE: In the October …
True or False
Something different this month! Answering (true/false/ depends!) and pondering the following questions will test your knowledge of some [...]
Scope of License / Child Abuse Reporting / Signed Authorization to Release Confidential Information
In the May 2019 issue of this Bulletin, I asked whether the reader (presumably, a licensed mental health practitioner) was permitted to [...]
Emancipated Minors and Child Abuse | Abuse of a Spouse – Can It Ever Be Lawfully Reported By The Practitioner?
In last month’s Avoiding Liability Bulletin, I wrote about child abuse reporting laws and the circumstances under which a failure to [...]