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This is a comprehensive handbook for mental health and social service providers on prevention of malpractice lawsuits and licensing-board complaints. Frederic G. Reamer provides in-depth discussion of common risk areas and steps practitioners can take to protect clients and themselves.
List of contents
Foreword, by Robert P. Landau
Preface
1. Professional Risk Management: An Overview
2. Confidentiality and Privileged Communication
3. The Delivery of Services
4. Impaired Practitioners
5. Supervision: Clients and Staff
6. Consultation, Referral, Documentation, and Records
7. Deception and Fraud
8. Interruption and Termination of Service
9. Responding to Lawsuits and Licensing-Board Complaints
Appendix: Sample Forms
Notes
References
Legal Citations
Index
About the author
Frederic G. Reamer is professor in the School of Social Work at Rhode Island College. He chaired the national task force that wrote the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics and served on the code revision task force. His recent Columbia University Press books include The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work (second edition, 2022), Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships in the Human Services (third edition, 2020), Social Work Values and Ethics (fifth edition, 2018), and On the Parole Board: Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice (2016).
Robert P. Landau is an attorney at the law firm of Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Peirce, Inc., in Providence, Rhode Island. He has decades of experience defending behavioral health providers, including social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, chemical dependency professionals, psychiatric nurses, and psychiatrists as well as hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other health-care providers in malpractice lawsuits and disciplinary proceedings.
Summary
This is a comprehensive handbook for mental health and social service providers on prevention of malpractice lawsuits and licensing-board complaints. Frederic G. Reamer provides in-depth discussion of common risk areas and steps practitioners can take to protect clients and themselves.
