Case Study The Doctrines Of Duty To Warn
1. How do the doctrines of Duty to Protect and Duty to Warn apply to this scenario?
-There are many ways that Duty to Protect and Duty to Warn apply to this scenario. In the scenario we are told that a mental health caseworker has a client that verbally admitted to physically abusing her children during the session, and the caseworker later decides to tell her supervisor about the situation and seek guidance. Since the caseworker’s supervisor was not there there was a person there to cover for the supervisor, the caseworker decides to consult the person covering for the supervisor who in return tells the caseworker to report it to Child Protective Services, and the caseworker does. When the supervisor returns, the caseworker is put on employment …show more content…
The supervisor should have planned her vacation ahead of time and made the proper arrangements as well as provide the proper training for her caseworker to be successful with her client in any situation. And to provide her caseworker with the proper training, the supervisor would first need to go over her own rights and responsibilities as well as the caseworker’s. There are three rights that the supervisor herself should’ve went over to help the scenario have a better outcome. First the supervisor should’ve made sure that she understood that she is responsible, both ethically and legally, for the actions of the trainees; the supervisor must be competent both in the practice of supervision and in the area of counseling being supervised; and the supervisor also has responsibilities to supervisees’ current and future clients. And to help the caseworker the supervisor could’ve went over two of the rights with the caseworker just to ensure that there wasn’t a breach of confidentiality. A few of the rights regarding confidentiality were confidentiality with regard to supervisor’s disclosure and confidentiality with regard to clients except as mandated by law. Going over these two rules would’ve helped the caseworker make a different decision regarding what to do about their client’s confession and in the end may have saved her from being put on employment
-There are many ways that Duty to Protect and Duty to Warn apply to this scenario. In the scenario we are told that a mental health caseworker has a client that verbally admitted to physically abusing her children during the session, and the caseworker later decides to tell her supervisor about the situation and seek guidance. Since the caseworker’s supervisor was not there there was a person there to cover for the supervisor, the caseworker decides to consult the person covering for the supervisor who in return tells the caseworker to report it to Child Protective Services, and the caseworker does. When the supervisor returns, the caseworker is put on employment …show more content…
The supervisor should have planned her vacation ahead of time and made the proper arrangements as well as provide the proper training for her caseworker to be successful with her client in any situation. And to provide her caseworker with the proper training, the supervisor would first need to go over her own rights and responsibilities as well as the caseworker’s. There are three rights that the supervisor herself should’ve went over to help the scenario have a better outcome. First the supervisor should’ve made sure that she understood that she is responsible, both ethically and legally, for the actions of the trainees; the supervisor must be competent both in the practice of supervision and in the area of counseling being supervised; and the supervisor also has responsibilities to supervisees’ current and future clients. And to help the caseworker the supervisor could’ve went over two of the rights with the caseworker just to ensure that there wasn’t a breach of confidentiality. A few of the rights regarding confidentiality were confidentiality with regard to supervisor’s disclosure and confidentiality with regard to clients except as mandated by law. Going over these two rules would’ve helped the caseworker make a different decision regarding what to do about their client’s confession and in the end may have saved her from being put on employment