A few weeks ago I reported a patient parents who said her parents beat her and raped her. However when I went to my supervisor about what to do his response was “well she’s extremely schizophrenic and paranoid so she’s probably making it up”. Honestly I don’t give a shit if they’re paranoid. If they say it happened then I have to report it no ifs and butts. I decided to report it anyways. However I kept getting transferred to different lines when I contacted the police and having to reexplain my situation to about 15 different people until someone was finally able to take the report down.
Which leads me to two questions.
- why would my supervisor have this reaction
- why are local police departments and other agencies so ill equipped for this kind of thing?