Disclosure made in therapy is being passed on as a safeguarding risk..

[Idontwantthat]

I'm having counselling and last week I disclosed that there had been S.A when I was young (this was 16 years ago)

During the opening few minutes of my session today my therapist said what we discussed was flagged as a (historical) safeguarding issue and it had to be passed on to social services as he's still out there. She wanted me to give his name and I very reluctantly did as it felt like I didn't have much choice and was under pressure.

I made it clear I don't want to speak to the police and I don't want my name mentioned to anybody and she said she would make a note of that.

I have a bad feeling now. I don't want her to do anything with the information. I know the statistics for prosecuting historical sex crimes and they don't weigh in the victims favour. I don't want to go back there. I mentioned it purely in a therapeutic manner so that I could process it and move on.

I don't think I'm going to feel comfortable disclosing anything else now.

Can somebody tell me if this is procedure or whether it's unacceptable?

Therapists have to have clinical supervision sessions with a colleague to debrief and offload any troubling content of therapy sessions to learn and reflect and stay mentally healthy themselves, etc.

Perhaps it is the clinical supervisor (not necessarily a supervisor in the sense of management) who has advised her that it needs to be disclosed to the police/social services.

You’re not under any obligation to engage with the police or give a statement or any of it.

She said it was her line manager whatever that means in that sector.

There was no mention of reporting it to the police by the way, atleast not that was mentioned to me. She just called social services and then later reframed it as doing it for my benefit as I could be entitled to compensation for them failing to protect me.

So not only is it upsetting for me it's completely pointless as they can't do anything about it unlike the police.

@Theglowofcandles do you still work in mental health?

So I had my first therapy assessment today and I’m really worried I’m feeling down from mental and emotional abuse from my relationship with my children’s dad that I got out of
they asked my children’s names DOB and school ?
im paranoid that social services will be involve I don’t understand why they asked for it all there is no harm to them