PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
By: Philip Marcus, Judge (retired), Jerusalem Family Court and Ruth Silverberg, LMHC
Date:
February 8th, 2021
Time:
19:00-22:00 IST
12:00-15:00 EST
Location: Online
This seminar will cover two critical aspects of child abuse reporting: the legal reporting requirements and procedure, and the clinical process and impact of reporting.
Participants will learn:
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Why report?
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Who is obliged to report?
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What has to be reported?
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What about therapist-client confidentiality?
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To whom to report?
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Penalties for not reporting
- What happens to the report?
- Motivations that affect the therapist’s decision to report
- Potentially conflicting roles of the clinician as therapist, reporter, investigator, witness
- The process of deciding whether something is reportable
- Reporting in a way that minimizes negative impact on the therapeutic relationship – with the child, parents, sibling or other client(s)
- Therapeutic issues that arise after reporting and through the investigation
Please note: The clinical portion of the seminar will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the live event, you will receive a recording of the legal portion of the seminar only.
Philip Marcus
Philip Marcus was born and educated in England. He moved to Israel in 1978, he was admitted as an Advocate at the Israel Bar in 1979, and appointed a Judge of the Jerusalem Magistrates Court in 1995. He served as a Judge of the Family Court from its opening in 1997 until his retirement in 2012. Philip Marcus is a consultant to committees of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) on all proposed legislation concerning children. He is a member of national and international organizations which focus on children who are affected by parental separation and divorce, child-parent contact problems and therapeutic jurisprudence. He has lectured on five continents, and has written and is consulted by governments and organizations around the world about family court system reform, interdisciplinary collaboration, and prevention of parental alienation, including, where necessary, proposals for changes in the law. He is also working on a research project whose object is to prove that investment in prevention of family breakdown and in early intervention where parental conflict occurs can help many children and at the same time save substantial costs to state treasuries.
Ruth Silverberg
Ruth Silverberg is a Jerusalem psychotherapist and consultant, and is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor. From 1993 to 2000, she directed NISHMA, the family violence program of the JFS-Orthodox Counseling Program in Los Angeles. NISHMA provided the first 24-hour hotline in the US for Orthodox women and families dealing with abuse and violence, as well as offering clinical services, housing and a broad range of educational activities in the community. From 2000-2018, she had a private practice in Monsey, as well as providing school-based services. She has offered workshops and trainings on a variety of topics to clinicians and the public alike. Since making aliyah in 2018, she maintains a private practice for women in Jerusalem, specializing in treatment of complex PTSD and developmental, childhood and relational trauma. She is an EMDRIA certified EMDR practitioner, and has extensive training in somatic interventions.
12:00-15:00 EST
This seminar will cover two critical aspects of child abuse reporting: the legal reporting requirements and procedure, and the clinical process and impact of reporting.
Participants will learn:
- Why report?
- Who is obliged to report?
- What has to be reported?
- What about therapist-client confidentiality?
- To whom to report?
- Penalties for not reporting
- What happens to the report?
- Motivations that affect the therapist’s decision to report
- Potentially conflicting roles of the clinician as therapist, reporter, investigator, witness
- The process of deciding whether something is reportable
- Reporting in a way that minimizes negative impact on the therapeutic relationship – with the child, parents, sibling or other client(s)
- Therapeutic issues that arise after reporting and through the investigation
Please note: The clinical portion of the seminar will not be recorded. If you are unable to attend the live event, you will receive a recording of the legal portion of the seminar only.
Philip Marcus
Philip Marcus was born and educated in England. He moved to Israel in 1978, he was admitted as an Advocate at the Israel Bar in 1979, and appointed a Judge of the Jerusalem Magistrates Court in 1995. He served as a Judge of the Family Court from its opening in 1997 until his retirement in 2012. Philip Marcus is a consultant to committees of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) on all proposed legislation concerning children. He is a member of national and international organizations which focus on children who are affected by parental separation and divorce, child-parent contact problems and therapeutic jurisprudence. He has lectured on five continents, and has written and is consulted by governments and organizations around the world about family court system reform, interdisciplinary collaboration, and prevention of parental alienation, including, where necessary, proposals for changes in the law. He is also working on a research project whose object is to prove that investment in prevention of family breakdown and in early intervention where parental conflict occurs can help many children and at the same time save substantial costs to state treasuries.
Ruth Silverberg
Ruth Silverberg is a Jerusalem psychotherapist and consultant, and is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor. From 1993 to 2000, she directed NISHMA, the family violence program of the JFS-Orthodox Counseling Program in Los Angeles. NISHMA provided the first 24-hour hotline in the US for Orthodox women and families dealing with abuse and violence, as well as offering clinical services, housing and a broad range of educational activities in the community. From 2000-2018, she had a private practice in Monsey, as well as providing school-based services. She has offered workshops and trainings on a variety of topics to clinicians and the public alike. Since making aliyah in 2018, she maintains a private practice for women in Jerusalem, specializing in treatment of complex PTSD and developmental, childhood and relational trauma. She is an EMDRIA certified EMDR practitioner, and has extensive training in somatic interventions.
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