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Marriage and Family Therapist
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Professional Counselor
Other
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Legal issues are relevant in two areas, laws governing the practice of your profession and criminal and civil laws that either directly or indirectly impact the mental health professionals practice.
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Ethical standards are promulgated in part to provide guidance for the profession, and but do not prevent patient exploitation and impairment of therapists judgement.
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Informed consent statements should be presented in writing and discussed with clients and their partners and at the very least include a description of the limits of treatment.
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Even if a clinician utilizes an educational model for treatment of perpetrators, they are still acting in the capacity a mental health professional, and therefore held to that standard of care.
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The California law also provides that, upon demand by the patient or the person who signed the authorization, a provider does not have to furnish a copy of the authorization to the patient or person.
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At the beginning of the assessment interview therapists should discuss all the limitations with regard to confidentiality, including mandated disclosures and permitted disclosures.
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Even when the client has signed an authorization to release information, therapists should use discretion in what information they reveal, particularly when discussing the case with non-mental health professionals, such as probation officers.
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The 1976 US Supreme Court decision, Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, asserted that therapists, because of the special relationship they have with clients, have a duty to take reasonable care to protect the intended victim.
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In 1983, another court ruling (Jablonski by Pahls v. United States) widened the Tarasoff duty to include protecting intended victims of violence even when no specific threat was made.
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In 1986, Section 43.92 of the California Civil Code was enacted through legislation. This law indicates that there would be no monetary liability on the part of the therapist, if a client makes a specific threat of violence towards an identifiable victim and the therapist make a reasonable effort to communicate the threat to the victim and notifies the local law enforcement agency.
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The Tarasoff decision mandates a specific response by the therapist in situations when a client makes a specific threat of violence even if a specific victim is not named.
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Prediction of violence is a fairly straight-forward concept in the field of psychology.
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Most recently researchers have suggested that context also plays an important role in whether or not a particular violent-prone individual will act out their aggression. In other words, there exists situational variables, such as victim characteristics, environmental factors, etc. that may trigger a particular persons aggressive reactions.
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Child abuse reporting is a statutory requirement in every state.
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When surveyed, mental health professionals indicated that the child abuse reporting mandate was the least common of a number of confidentiality issues confronted in the course of their work.
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Consultation with a colleague has been found to be empirically correlated positively with child abuse reporting.
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Feelings of appreciation are likely to be experienced by the patient and/or family members towards the therapist for initiating a report to social services. Therefore, the therapist need not be prepared for handling a great deal of negative affect when providing appropriate boundaries.
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For a short period of time, there was talk in California about using the adult dependent abuse law to justify the reporting of domestic violence with victims seeking psychotherapy services.
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California Penal Code Section 11160-11163.5 provides mandatory reporting for any mental health practitioner provides treatment services for a mental condition caused by domestic violence.
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The most common privilege exception is the one referring to a clients danger to self, other or the property of others. In California, this exception is Section 1024 of the Evidence Code.
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When you receive a a proper subpoena for records, you should immediately produce the records.
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California Health and Safety Code, Section 1795 provides that patients shall be entitled to inspect their own records upon presenting to the health care provider a written request and upon payment of reasonable clerical costs incurred in the locating and making the records available.
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There are generally no conflicts for a therapist to be both the patient's therapist and expert witness in court.
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The simplest way to avoid financial acting out is for therapists to set their fee and remain firm as to the amount, how its paid, when its paid, and what happens when its not paid.
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