Coaches, who are required to be licensed mental health professionals, are
mandated to report certain communications including child abuse or neglect.
CP does not trump that statutory obligation in Michigan. Siri Gottlieb,
MSW, JD
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From: CollabLaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:CollabLaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James Hallett
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:47 PM
To: CollabLaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [CollabLaw] Attorney-Client, Psychotherapist and Mediation
Privileges
My client's statements to me are within the attorney-client privilege.
That's easy.
My client's statements to his or her coach are, at least here in California,
almost certainly within the attorney-client privilege. That's pretty easy.
Does that mean I can instruct the coach that the coach is forbidden to
comply with mandatory reporting requirements that would otherwise apply to
therapists?
How about my client's statements to spouse's coach and/or spouse's attorney?
Is there an argument that those statements are within attorney-client
privilege?
Are my client's statements to the spouse's coach within the
psychotherapist-patient privilege?
If not, is the mediation privilege all we have?
Does California's 2006 legislative decision not (for now) to include
collaboration in the statutory mediation privilege constitute a legislative
history to show that collaboration is not within the mediation privilege?
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