An MSW working in a nursing home discovers that a patient has been sexually abused by a member of the staff. What is the MSWs responsibility?
The MSWs responsibility is to report the incident immediately to the police. Good social work practice includes reporting to your immediate supervisor in the nursing home as well. Q: An LCSW has an adult client who lives at home with parents, and the parents pay for his therapy. The client is in school full-time and has a mental health diagnosis that affects his performance. His parents would like the social worker to write a letter to the dean of the school explaining his condition, so that the dean will allow him some flexibility. Does the social worker need a release from the client, the parents, or both to write the letter? A: The social worker does not need a signed release from the parents unless the client is, for some reason, ruled incompetent. An adult client, regardless of who pays the bills, would have to authorize such action with a signed release. Q: An LCSW has another credentialed social worker as a client in her clinical practice. In the course of therapy, the client (s
