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best answer is A. The question was, "what should be your first response?"
The possible case of abuse will need first to be verified. Once it is verified
the steps outlined in B, C, and D would be considered.
  Ethics - What
Should Parents Know?
Parents are legally responsible for their children, and
consequently, they have a right to know about them. Under the law a person is
regarded as a minor until he is eighteen, and until that time (unless he is
emancipated), the parents are legally responsible for his care and for his misdemeanors.
In psychotherapy, however, psychological age or the condition of the patient rather
than chronological age must determine the approach the therapist will have to
take in dealing with parents.
The
requirement that a school or a psychiatrist notify the parents of all minors who
consult the psychiatrist would destroy service at once. As a consequence, university
health services usually treat students as though they were adults.
Records
of the juvenile court are not open to public scrutiny. Under traditional juvenile
court philosophy, a veil of secrecy is drawn over its proceedings and records.
These laws do not require the reporting of "mental abuse," which is much
more devastating to the child. The percentage of such cases, serious in nature,
can well be imagined to be multifold the number of cases of physical abuse.
- Petrila, J., J.D., L.L.M., & Fader-Towe, H., J.D. (2010). Information Sharing in Criminal Justice-Mental Health Collaborations: Working with HIPAA and Other Privacy Laws. Council of State Governments Justice Center, 1-46. Retrieved from https://www.bja.gov/Publications/CSG_CJMH_Info_Sharing.pdf..
Guidelines for Juvenile Information Sharing
- Mankey, J., M.P.A., Baca, P., Ed.D., Rondenell, S., B.S., Webb, M., M.A., & McHugh, D., J.D. (october 2006). Guidelines for Juvenile Information Sharing. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1-37.
Online Continuing Education QUESTION
6
If a woman admits during a counseling session that she is being abused
by her boyfriend, the social worker is obligated to do the following:
a. Report
the incident to the proper authority with or without client permission
b.
Report the incident with client permission only
c. Assist the woman to become
aware of services available to her in regard to the abuse
d. Nothing is required
of the social worker, it is up to the woman to ask
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