Question

.Consider the limits of confidentiality that you delineated in Question I. Had those limits been discussed and an informed consent been signed at the onset of treatment, please discuss how you would respond to your client disclosing his intention to have unprotected sex, despite positive HIV status, with an identified other.A complete answer should make reference to cases in the past that have set precedence with respect to a clinician’s duty to warn. A complete response should also indicate what conflicting ethical considerations were weighted in coming to your conclusion.

you should be familiar with all relevant ethical codes and standards according to CCPA,2015 . Attached the link 2. Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. (2015). Standards of practice. (5th ed.). Ottawa, ON: Author. Retrieved from http://www.ccpa-accp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/StandardsOfPractice_en_June2015.pdf

You are to explain all three elements. How would you explain confidentiality to a client. What is the role of confidentiality? When can it be broken? What do the codes say about confidentiality? Record keeping discuss how do you keep records protected? Discuss the ethics of the protection of records? When discussing children what can be kept confidential or can anything be confidential? Use the codes to support your answer.

Answer 1

Counsellors have an ethical responsibility to take every reasonable precaution to respect and to safeguard their clients’ right to confidentiality, and to protect from inappropriate disclosure, any information generated within the counselling relationship.Confidentiality should be discussed with the client prior to begining counselling and discuss the limits throughout the counselling process as required.

When a client begins visiting a counselor,he/she needs help to cope up with changes or life problems or a mental health condition may already feel enough stressed without expressing the problem with the stranger and may also feel embarassed.It ts essential to build a trustworthy relation between client and the therapist.So confidentiality is needed.

Confidentiality can be broken in following situations:-

•There is an imminent danger to an identifiable third party or to self;

•When a counsellor has reasonable cause to suspect abuse or neglect of a child;

•When a disclosure is ordered by a court;

•When a client requests disclosure, or

•When a client files a complaint or claims professional liability by the counsellor in a lawsuit.

Codes of confidentiality :- B2