Jonathan Singer and Alan Barsky (2012) did a wonderful job in explain the defenses between being a forensic social work ,a social work attending in court. This is something that I had not thought about , he explained that as social workers we have obligation to the legal system. We should look professional and have court ready notes. We also must now that we have limitations with our clients. A client must give authority to reals records that is all of the records. It is the clients right to self-determination. This means they have the ability to say no, when this happens it is the social workers responsibility to inform the client what the ramifications of their decision. If they do say yes and you have to be questioned there are two
