Confidentiality

Consent & Confidentiality Client is a sixteen year old female who has been experiencing various psychological traumas such as physical, sexual, verbal and mental abuse at the hands of her father and mother. Since the client is a minor and abuse has been reported by the client as well as her mother, it would be appropriate to report this to Child Protective Services (CPS). At that time an investigation will take place and the client will be placed into state custody with her two children. The…

child which seems excessive to him Human service professionals protect the client 's right to privacy and confidentiality except when such confidentiality would cause serious harm to the client or others, when agency guidelines state otherwise, or under other stated conditions (e.g., local, state, or federal laws). Human service professionals inform clients of the limits of confidentiality prior to the onset of the helping relationship. (“National organization for human services”,2015)…

Argument 3 : Importance of the privilege The Doctor-client confidentiality agreement is an extremely important factor of the medical field in today’s society and is the underlying aspect that allowed medical practitioners to effectively and efficiently do their jobs. The reason why doctor- client confidentiality is an important factor in modern day medical practice is that by receiving information from the client the medical practitioner will be able to investigate and attempt to solve…

Confidentiality and Privilege Psychology can be a complex set of ethical standards of laws and principles, which are treated with the uppermost respect. Confidentiality between mental health professionals and privileges of trust as a professional are correlated with the APA Ethics Code of Standards (Fisher, 2012). Law and ethics are two different areas of psychology that can emerge from within those areas. Confidentiality is private information consented between the mental health professional…

It touches on the importance of confidentiality from an ethical and legal standpoint but goes on to further discuss how the process is further complicated when dealing with minors. Research by the above author found that the two leading causes of breach of confidentiality to consider when working with minors involve 1) age of client/maturity level- autonomy, and 2) seriousness of the behavior (Isaacs, 2001). Isaacs & Stone (1999) discuss confidentiality with minors especially the students…

you really do anything about that? Due to client confidentiality agreement you’re not allowed to reveal information about a client to a third party without the consent of the client. Let’s put a name to this Glen Ford, is the longest person on death row to then be exonerated after 30 years of being in jail. He was found innocent after the real man that did the crime died and his lawyers confessed that he did it. They said that due to confidentiality agreement they couldn't help Mr. Ford until…

4 .01 Maintaining Confidentiality and 4.02 Discussing the Limits of Confidentiality Fisher, (2013) would be discussed along with the Informed consent and going over all of the areas of the treatment and making sure that Irina and her parents know that confidentiality is held at a high standard and that written permission must be given for information to be given out. Trying to limit Irina…

adolescents can be both a rewarding and challenging experience. Dealing with the difficulties of confidentiality and also parental involvement can increase the complexity of working with this population. According to Section B of the ACA Code of Ethics (2014), counselors must take precautions to ensure the confidentiality of all client information, including both prospective and current clients. Confidentiality is not something that should be taken lightly the lives of the people you serve are…

Robert, great job on your post! As you mentioned blanket confidentiality does little to protect unsuspecting individuals yet fully protects those with malice intent to spread the virus. I fully understand that disclosure of positive HIV status has the potential to create turmoil in the lives of the affected as well as their loved ones. Stigma, the potential for violence, and discrimination is the fear that people with positive status live with. The comment, "We can fight stigma. Enlightened laws…

In class on Wednesday, we concentrated on the issue of confidentiality. When the class first began I thought this would be a simple class. I already knew about confidentiality from previous classes. I knew it meant I would not release anything said in sessions unless an individual was planning to hurt themselves or hurt another individual. To me, this seemed simple enough. I would not have thought there was anything difficult about this. I was soon in complete shock. I did not believe that if…