Foster Care Training

The workshop will begin with a discussion of challenges to and methods of addressing the quality of ethical decision making, with an emphasis on steps to reduce judgements in decisions, generally. The course then will turn its focus to a particular kind of bias– racism and barriers to equity for traditionally marginalized communities in mental health care–and will present models to help increase access and equity. Confidentiality, it’s limits (e.g., case law and statutory developments in the California duty to protect (e.g., Turner v. Rivera, 2021) and our child abuse reporting law and elder/depending adult abuse reporting developments) will be discussed. This workshop will conclude by assisting professionals in navigating work with high conflict, system-involved families, whether with individual adults embroiled in, or children and adolescents affected by, such situations. If time permits, we will discuss preventing and managing licensing board complaints.