Review questions — Scope and safe intake

Scope before a meeting

Begin with the actual request, not an invitation to “fix the family.” Identify a safe educational skill and needs requiring clinical, legal or protection services. A scope card states the goal, format, what the service does not do, and when it stops. Consent is more than group attendance: separate participation, sharing private statements and recording them. Explain confidentiality limits under local policy and collect only information needed for the goal. At intake, attribute accounts to speakers and look for urgent need before planning a conversation. Medication ingestion or near-term self-harm calls for qualified emergency response; fear of meeting a partner pauses joint work pending safety review. Do not diagnose from one signal or infer safety from lack of proof of assault. Record the fact, decision and actual referral-receipt status.