{"id":3100,"date":"2018-06-18T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:11:53","slug":"therapists-dont-commingle-your-forensic-and-therapeutic-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"Therapists, don\u2019t commingle your forensic, therapeutic roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3101\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3101\" style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180618Kirk80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">June 18, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTed Cross, a senior research specialist at the University of Illinois School of Social Work, [said] separation of the two interventions \u2013 forensic and therapeutic \u2013 is critical for the child, but is also important for practical reasons: \u2018You don&#8217;t want the therapeutic work to taint a criminal investigation. If a child is in therapy at the same time that the forensic interview takes place, the attorney representing the offender can say the therapist planted the idea of abuse in the child&#8217;s head.\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis point is of particular importance in the wake of high-profile cases such as the McMartin Preschool trial during the 1980s, in which therapists&#8217; interviewing techniques were so suggestive that the children falsely accused their teachers of abuse&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/solutions\/2018\/03\/a-space-to-support-abused-children\/556691\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Build a Space to Support Abused Children<\/a>\u201d by Mimi Kirk at Atlantic Cities (March 29)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did the Little Rascals therapists offer children any therapy at all? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1064\">What do you think?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2018 \u201cTed Cross, a senior research specialist at the University of Illinois School of Social Work, [said] separation of the two interventions \u2013 forensic and therapeutic \u2013 is critical for the child, but is also important for practical reasons: \u2018You don&#8217;t want the therapeutic work to taint a criminal investigation. If a child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}