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AllHeart · Jul 19, 2017 at 01:13 PM

The NASW Code of Ethics is here:
https://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp

I’m not the expert of your situation or the code of ethics, of course. But, nowhere does the code state reporting someone is required or mandatory that I can see. The use of the word “should” is prevalent throughout the code which perhaps leaves things open for interpretation. Like I said, my t and my daughter’s t are LCSW’s and follow the NASW code also. Before I was ready to consider filing a report myself, they both told me they would have loved to report my ex-t but they didn’t because it wasn’t mandatory and because they knew it would have greatly hurt me. I hope your t has the same findings.