Every clinician who becomes a mandated reporter inherits a decision that was written into law over fifty years ago, built on the assumption that reporting a suspicion is always the safer choice.
Simply put, that assumption hasn’t held up.
Children of color are reported, investigated, and removed from their families at rates their white peers are not, and a system created to protect kids has, for many families, become something closer to surveillance.
This training doesn’t ask you to set aside your legal obligation to report. It asks you to understand what that obligation rests on, and where it can go wrong.
Learn from ethics and legal expert Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW, founder of Making the Tough Call and a longtime consultant to government and community-based organizations on the reporting of suspected child maltreatment.
You’ll learn how to:
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Orienting the Conversation: Ethical Principles
How We Got Here: The History Behind the Law
The Current State of Disproportionality
Tracing the Roots of Disproportionate Impact
A Framework for “Just” Reporting
Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW, principal consultant with Krase Consultant, is a lawyer, social worker, and expert on the legal and ethical implications of professional practice. She has over two decades of experience as a professor of social work in undergraduate, masters level and doctoral level social work programs. She has authored multiple books and articles on the subject of professional ethics, including Making the Tough Call: A Resource for Professional Reporters of Suspected Child Maltreatment.
Dr. Krase blogs regularly on topics such as professional boundaries for clinicians, confidentiality in practice, and racial justice in mental health practice. She has years of experience consulting with government and community-based organizations to develop policy & practice standards, and trains thousands of mental and physical health professionals a year on various legal and ethical obligations.
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Orienting the Conversation: Ethical Principles
How We Got Here: The History Behind the Law
The Current State of Disproportionality
Tracing the Roots of Disproportionate Impact
A Framework for “Just” Reporting
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