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Introduction to Rejecting Mandated Reporting

 
🚨 State surveillance is NOT healing.

Rejecting Mandated Reporting explores the harm embedded in mandated reporting practices by examining the social work, psychotherapy and colonial mental health systems. Participants will critically examine the role of diagnostic authority, the distinction between neglect vs unmet need and the parallels between involuntary hospitalization and incarceration. The workshop will also introduce concrete alternatives and community-centered approaches that support client safety without surveillance.

đź“… Originally recorded on Saturday, September 27 from 4:00-6:00pm Eastern

🎤 Presented by Raquel Savage

What to Expect:

  • A historical overview of mandated reporting and systems of oppression within social work and psychotherapy
  • Exploration of the diagnostic framework’s role in surveillance and reporting
  • Critical distinctions between child neglect and structural unmet needs
  • Discussion of involuntary hospitalization and its carceral parallels
  • Engagement with case examples and reflective discussion
  • Tools for community-based alternatives

Who Is This Space For:

  • Licensed clinicians and clinical interns (social workers, therapists, psychologists)
  • Mental health professionals navigating mandated reporting duties
  • Unlicensed practitioners of any kind committed to anti-oppressive and trauma-informed care

Learning Objectives:

  • By the end of this session, participants will be able to explore the role of the clinician in systems of oppression, and name 2 strategies for mitigating the impact of systemic role within their role.
    • A. Ethics and ethical behavior.
  • By the end of this session, participants will be able to identify systemic oppression, ethical concerns and limitations within the mental health field.
    • SC2. Theory and methods of sexuality counseling approaches to specific populations (e.g., youth, older adults, couples, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, ethnic/ cultural/ faith-based populations).


This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.