Well, so much for therapy

[RobertC]

I have been having a hard time lately, regarding issues related to this forums purpose, and I started to make the step. Confidentiality is a big concern. Of course confidentiality runs smack into mandated reporter laws.

So, I called mental health, the counties contracted therapy provider. I then asked them about a hypothetical client; who happened to look a lot like me. I told them that his concern was that he did not want to drag his entire family through this. It was a long time ago.

I then asked about confidentiality and mandated reporter requirments. Finally, after speaking to several people I was told that they would have to speak to CPS to get an answer.

Well, that is me, and it is a small agency, so it may very well be me. I know the answer and know that if that report landed on my desk that I would then be required to cross report it to law encorcement, and then the ball starts rolling.

I considered, for a moment, going and then burying the cross report when it gets to our office. However, I have not done anything flat out ollegal on this job yet, and I have no intention of doing so in the future.

So much for the idea of therapy. Hell, I am almost 40. Statisticly I only have 40 more years to go.

Stocism, it's not just for breakfast any more

 

[Leosha]

I do not know, of course, how things fully work in this country. But I see therapist, American one, and even though my abuses occured in another country, she never even asked me if anything happened in the U.S. I was under the impression the 'mandatory report' was only if there was still a young child in the house (in familial abuse), or reasonable suspicion that children were still at risk? I guess I have it wrong.

I am sorry that your options are so limited. I hope that you can find some other option.

Leosha