Tag Archives: child abuse reporting
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 [...]
Child Abuse Reporting-Signed Statement Required?
State law (likely part of the child abuse reporting law) may require persons who enter employment as a “health practitioner” to sign a [...]
Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and/or Neglect: A Liability Concern?
As you are hopefully aware, nurses are among the health care providers who are required to report a good faith belief or suspicion that [...]
Know Your Risks: Family Law, Fictitious Business Names, Privilege / Confidentiality, Subpoenas / Privilege, Testimony Under Oath and Child Abuse Reporting
One of the most important things for practitioners to know about family law involves the issue of child custody. More specifically, it [...]
Confidentiality – Disclosures to Patient
Below you will find topics that I have written about in prior issues of the Avoiding Liability Bulletin. I make brief comments here or [...]
Treating Children – Selected Legal Issues
Therapists and counselors treat children both with and without the consent of one or both parents. It is not uncommon for practitioners [...]
Diversity
There are many legal issues affecting mental health professionals that involve the subject of diversity. Perhaps one doesn’t think [...]
Diversity And The Law
In the December 2009 issue of this Bulletin, I gave three examples of, and asked related questions about, the inter-connectedness of [...]
Emotional Abuse of Children
A recent article in the newspaper drew my attention to the issue of psychological abuse or maltreatment of children, sometimes referred [...]
Custody Disputes – Parent Reporting Child Abuse
Suppose that a client enters into a professional relationship with a counselor or therapist and explains that her marriage is falling [...]
Child Abuse
… Suppose your patient, a sixteen- year old boy, tells you that he started a fight with his classmate at school and that he punched the [...]
Child Abuse Reporting
… Suppose a therapist or counselor (mandated reporter) in state “A” is told by her sixteen year old patient that she was abused by her [...]