Mary Alice Fisher

The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality (eBook, PDF)

A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Therapists once promised patients "Everything you tell me will remain in this room." Today, they can keep that promise only if they are willing to break the laws that now require them to disclose information without patient consent. Most avoid such civil disobedience by placing limits on confidentiality; but ethically speaking, this 'conditional' confidentiality can be difficult to practice. The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals is a guidebook designed to help therapists and other mental health professionals navigate the ethical and legal maze surrounding confidentiality. At its core is a practical Confidentiality Practice Model-a step-by-step guide for clarifying the ethical and legal issues that make the ethics of conditional confidentiality so complicated. Ethics codes represent the 'ethical floor,' which is the minimum standard of behavior about confidentiality. The goal in this book is to encourage reaching for the 'ethical ceiling,' by protecting confidentiality to the extent legally possible and not disclosing patients' confidences just because certain laws would allow them to be disclosed. The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality demystifies confidentiality for therapists, clinical supervisors, educators, ethics consultants, attorneys who represent mental health professionals, clinicians, and administrators, and is an ideal supplemental ethics text for graduate courses. It is also useful for establishing confidentiality policies in any clinical setting and training program.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199344017
• Artikelnr.: 40175297

Autorenporträt

Mary Alice Fisher, Ph. D., is Founding Director of The Center for Ethical Practice, Inc., Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of Virginia Curry Programs in Clinical and School Psychology, and a clinical psychologist in private practice in Charlottesville, VA. For over 25 years Dr. Fisher has provided workshops, seminars, and consultation for mental health professionals on topics related to ethical issues in clinical practice.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Abbreviations
* PART I. The ABC's of "Conditional Confidentiality": An Ethical,
Legal, and Ethical/Legal Review
* Chapter 1. Ethical Responsibilities about Confidentiality
* Chapter 2. Law Affecting Confidentiality
* Chapter 3. Placing Laws into Ethical Context
* PART II. Protecting Patients' Confidentiality Rights with an
Ethics-Based Practice Model
* Introduction to Part II: "The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality"
* Chapter 4. Step 1 - Preparing
* Chapter 5. Step 2 - Telling Prospective Patients the Truth about
Confidentiality's Limits
* Chapter 6. Step 3 - Obtaining Truly Informed Consent before
Disclosing Confidential Information Voluntarily
* Chapter 7. Step 4 - Responding Ethically to Legal Demands for
"Involuntary" Disclosure of Patient Information
* Chapter 8. Step 5 - Avoiding Preventable Breaches of Confidentiality
* Chapter 9. Step 6 - Talking about Confidentiality
* Part III. Practical Considerations
* Chapter 10. Clinical Record Keeping
* Chapter 11. Confidentiality with Specific Patient Populations
* Chapter 12. Confidentiality in Specific Roles and Settings
* Chapter 13. Ethics-Based Staff Training about Confidentiality
* Appendix
* I. Selected Ethical Standards Relevant to Confidentiality Listed
Numerically
* II - Ethical Standards (using categories from Knapp and VandeCreek
(2006))
* III - Laws Affecting Confidentiality - Summary and Examples
* IV - HIPAA Regulations - Summary
* V - Ethical Practice Model (with legal annotations)
* VI - Ethical Responsibilities in Forensic Contexts: Which Hat Are You
Wearing?
* VII - Ethical and Professional Resources
* VIII - Ethics-Based Staff Training About Confidentiality - Sample
Outline
* NOTES
* REFERENCES
* INDEX