The Impact of Mandated Reporting on the Therapeutic Process: Picking up the Pieces

by Murray Levine and Howard J. Doueck

The introduction of mandated reporting laws of suspected child maltreatment in the United States was intended to solve a problem - it has, however, also created new ones. What began as an effort to ensure that physicians were reporting physical abuse of children has expanded: psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners are now included as mandated reporters. In addition, the scope...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803954735
• ISBN13: 9780803954731
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"