630: When the Law Puts You In a Catch-22 | Feedback Friday
Feb 25, 2022
A fascinating deep dive into the challenges of mental health access for victims of abuse due to mandatory reporting laws is discussed. The hosts also examine the ethical implications of these laws and the potential loopholes families might consider. Additionally, one listener grapples with feelings of unworthiness after receiving an unexpectedly high salary offer, prompting a conversation about self-worth and professional growth. The banter between the hosts adds a light-hearted touch to these serious topics.
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Texas Catch-22
A Texas woman adopted her niece, who later revealed being assaulted by her older brother (the woman's nephew).
The woman struggles with helping both while facing mandatory reporting laws, creating a catch-22.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Navigating Mandatory Reporting
Therapists are mandated reporters, but patients control shared information.
Withhold specific details during therapy to avoid triggering a mandatory report if you want to prioritize processing your own feelings over legal action.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
High Salary Guilt
Reframe high salary guilt by focusing on living up to it.
Ask yourself what that employee would do and work towards becoming that person.
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A well-intended law in your state makes it impossible for victims of sexual abuse, or their loved ones, to get psychological help without triggering a mandatory report. In your situation, such a report would ruin the life of the offender -- who was a minor at the time and may not even remember committing the crime. How can your family seek the help it needs without initiating legal complications that will only make the overall situation worse for all parties -- including the victim?
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A well-intended law in your state makes it impossible for victims of sexual abuse, or their loved ones, to get psychological help without triggering a mandatory report. Is it wrong to seek loopholes when this would hurt the family it's intended to help?
Surprisingly, your new company accepted the highball offer you proposed during negotiations, and now your salary is twice what you'd ever hoped to land. So how can you shake the guilty feeling that you don't really deserve it? You wanted to be a jazz guitarist, not an oligarch, for goodness' sakes!
Should you take it as a bad omen that your fiancée doesn't post about you on social media, or are you just reading too much into it?
Is there a way to turn an insensitive racist comment into a teachable moment for the offender...inoffensively?
As a manager, how can you address the deteriorating performance and poor attitude of an older employee who's worked for the company for decades?
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