Mandated Reporting & Social Justice
Ethical Practice to Support Child Welfare
- Speaker:
- Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW
- Duration:
- 3.5 Hours
- Product Code:
- LWC151104
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ96930
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar
Description
- Understand what reporting law actually requires, and where suspicion crosses into overreach
- Apply ethics codes through a racial and social justice lens
- Get a practical framework for “just” reporting you can use with real cases
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:
- Apply ethical principles through a racial and social justice lens
- Identify the roots of disproportionate impact on the macro, mezzo, and micro level
- Distinguish when a suspicion legally requires a report and when it doesn’t
- Evaluate how your own lens shapes your reporting decisions
- Appy a practical framework for “just” reporting to real case examples
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Speaker
Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW Related seminars and products
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.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kathryn Krase maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Social Work Education Assessment Project. She receives royalties as a published author. Kathryn Krase receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kathryn Krase is a member of the National Association of Social Workers.
Additional Info
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be one 15-minute break. Actual break start time is at the discretion of the speaker. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Distinguish between the competing ethical and legal principles at play in the development of mandated reporting laws over time.
- Examine the contributing factors related to racial disproportionality in the child welfare system.
- Identify ethical/moral and legal conundrums faced when making the decision to report.
- Apply a framework to guide the process for considering racial and social justice when determining whether it’s required to make a report to child protective services.
Outline
Orienting the Conversation: Ethical Principles
- Beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice, per APA, NASW, ACA, AAMFT
- “Saving children” vs. parents’ rights and professional autonomy
- Social and racial justice as components of the justice principle
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
How We Got Here: The History Behind the Law
- Origins of mandated reporting
- Original laws vs. today’s system: 150,000 reports in 1963 to 4.4 million in 2020
- What CPS was designed to do, and what it can’t do
The Current State of Disproportionality
- Report sources and substantiation rates
- Socioeconomic status and the “visibility” or poor families
- Competing theories: visibility bias, implicit and explicit racial bias
- Racial disproportionality vs. racial disparity
Tracing the Roots of Disproportionate Impact
- Macro Level: Civil rights movement, neo-liberalism, political systems
- Mezzo Level: Community resources, connections, agency practice
- Micro Level: Child protector vs. mandated supporter, your own bias
A Framework for “Just” Reporting
- Legal responsibility to report
- When suspicions are required to be reported & when they are not
- Challenging legal requirements
- Abolition movement
- Evaluate influence of personal lenses to reporting decision
- Ethical responsibility for just practice
- Ethical responsibilities when report is made
- Ethical responsibilities when report is not made
- Case examples & application of framework
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Therapists
- Physicians
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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