MANDATED REPORTING OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE
Ethics, Law, and Policy, 2nd Edition
Seth C. Kalichman
American Psychological Association, 1999
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Become familiar with an extensive set of guidelines and recommendations on how to respond to mandated reporting laws
• Examine numerous scenarios to highlight how to report suspicions
• Examine the expanded casebook demonstrating the consequences of reporting or not reporting
• Understand the law to report known or suspected child maltreatment in the U.S.
• Review issues in the mandatory reporting of abuse including the elderly and developmentally disabled
• Explore the therapeutic potential of mandatory reporting laws
• Learn the concerns practice of child protection and with mandated reporting of suspected abuse
• Recognize the emotional responses exhibited by physically abused children
• Learn the difficulties in interviewing suspected victims of abuse
• Learn why many mandated reporters fail to report suspected child abuse
Seth C. Kalichman is Professor of Psychology, The University of Connecticut, Storrs.
8 CE Credits; 235 pages
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