Individual Accountability as Distraction: What the Mental Health System Gets Wrong About Tragedy | Episode 31
This week Sandy made a CPS report.
In the process, she discovered that a previous report had already been made by someone else — and nothing had happened. Not because anyone was malicious. Not because nobody cared. Because somewhere between two agencies that were supposed to be communicating, the ball sat on the floor and nobody owned the gap.
That same week, a trial in Massachusetts has the mental health field watching, waiting, and spiraling in Facebook groups about documentation practices and risk assessments and whether they should present themselves as experts at all.
Sandy wants to talk…
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