An overview of abuse reporting statutes.

Child abuse reporting requirements: liabilities and immunities for clergy.

Alerts clergy and pastoral counselors to the role of child abuse reporting requirements in their pastoral care and counseling ministries. Outlines the rationale for child abuse reporting statutes, noting particularly the "spiritual healing exception"; and explains how penalties can be imposed for those who fail to comply with statutes.

Willful Child Abuse and State Reporting Statutes

Child abuse and neglect statutes: legal and clinical implications.

E m h of the 50 stutes has enacted some version of a "mandatory reporting tict ," which requires mental health professionals t o report instances of suspected child cibuse or neglect. Requirements of these statutes may supersede putient-therapist confidentiality in the interest of protecting children. Clinical and ethical dilemmas created fo r the therapist by mandatory reporting requirements a...

Forensic evaluations and mandated reporting of child abuse.

Statutes requiring physicians to report suspected cases of child abuse create a potential conflict for psychiatrists working in the forensic setting. What happens in the case in which a forensic psychiatrist, during the course of an evaluation requested by a defense attorney, learns about child abuse perpetrated by the evaluee? A complicated legal, ethics-related, and interpersonal dilemma emer...

Legal issues affecting dentistry's role in preventing child abuse and neglect.

Dentists can best help protect children from maltreatment through an understanding of the child protective services process. All dentists are covered under state statutes as mandated reporters of suspected child abuse and neglect. Reporting statutes vary considerably from state to state. All dentists must understand the intricacies of applicable state laws to help identify suspected child maltr...