"Webmanager_CritEst" wrote in message
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> On Jul 7, 9:07 pm, "Steve Walker" wrote:
>> Cynic wrote:
>> > On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:34:42 +0100, "Steve Walker"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> You know this as a fact, WM? It seems odd that a psycho.ual
>> >> therapist should take on a client, presumably with stipulations of
>> >> clinical confidentiality, and then later decide that the police
>> >> needed to be involved. The only logical reason would be that
>> >> something had changed, or not changed, in the course of their
>> >> the.utic relationship.
>>
>> > IIUC a professional has a duty to report any illegal activity that
>> > their patient admits to wrt children.
>>
>> I think it's more likely to be a duty to report anything which represents
>> a
>> significant risk to children, which is understandable. Presumably the
>> psycho.ual therapist understood that their client was troubled by
>> .ual
>> feelings towards children, and initially undertook to provide counselling
>> for that problem. 16 sessions later they called the Police, and I still
>> wonder why.
>>
>> > As the only offence he was charged with was that of downloading
>> > indecent images of children, it would be safer to assume that that was
>> > the only illegal activity the patient admitted to.
>
> I have just been thrown out of college, simply based on my criminal
> record.
>
> It just happens - believe it.
>
> WM
Do you have to have a check for that as well now ? Are there under 18yos
there or something ?
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