The ethical issues that arise in this case include informed consent, confidentiality, boundaries, and scope of practice. This case requires informed consent because as an intern the clients need to know that I will be speaking to my supervisors about any issues that may arise during my meetings with …show more content…
After speaking with my supervisor we decided that it would be best to report it to the Child Abuse Hotline as we had reasonable suspicion of abuse. We decided to this because the child was fearful of attending school and although we understood that this was not abuse that occurred in the home we felt it best to report. Although when abuse occurs outside of the home must be reported to the police we felt that it would be best to be report to the hotline so that if another similar situation arises there are past reports. We made the report to the Child Abuse Hotline and immediately faxed over a written report within an