Groups and Families/ Clients Lacking Capacity to Give Informed Consent
Exceptions
100
A Counselor requests private information from clients only when it is beneficial to the counseling process.
What is (B.1.b.) Respect for Privacy?
100
A counselor files and keeps up with the appropriate paperwork.
What is (B.6.a.) Creating and Maintaining Records and Documentation?
100
A counselors makes every effort to ensure that privacy of clients are maintained by employees or students with whom they are working.
What is (B.3.a.) Subordinates?
100
While working with a child, a counselor breaks confidentiality whenever they see fit as the child is unable to give informed consent.
What is a violation of (B.5.c.) Release of Confidential Information?
100
A client threatens homicide and a counselor breaks confidentiality regarding this.
What is (B.2.a.) Serious and Foreseeable Harm and Legal Requirements?
200
A Counselor maintains sensitivity regarding cultural meanings of confidentiality and privacy.
What is (B.1.a.) Multicultural/Diversity Considerations?
200
A counselor bars a client from looking over any of the counselor's files on said client.
What is a violation of (B.6.e.) Client Access?
200
A counselor does not bother to password protect or encrypt private client related files sent to another party.
What is a violation of (B.3.e.) Transmitting Confidential Information?
200
While working with a child, a counselor keeps the benign content of that child's drawings confidential.
What is (B.5.a.) Responsibility to Clients?
200
A counselor informs a client's sexual partner of the client's HIV status after the client states that they are planning to never disclose this information.
What is (B.2.c.) Contagious, Life-Threatening Diseases?
300
Counselors inform clients of the _______ of confidentiality and seek to identify situations in which confidentiality must be breached.
What is (B.1.d.) Explanation of Limitations?
300
A counselor shares information in a consulting relationship for professional purposes.
What is (B.7.a.) Respect for Privacy?
300
A counselor continues to maintain confidentiality for a client who passed away.
What is (B.3.f.) Deceased Clients?
300
A counselor explains the importance of confidentiality for a group with whom they is working.
What is (B.4.a.) Group Work?
300
A counselor is ordered by a judge to disclose information and seeks to take steps to prohibit the disclosure or have it limited as narrowly as possible because of potential harm to the client or counseling relationship.
What is (B.2.d.) Court-Ordered Disclosure?
400
A counselor discloses information only with appropriate consent
What is (B.1.c.) Respect for Confidentiality?
400
Within the context of a consultation, a counselor uses the full name and place of business of their client.
What is a violation of (B.7.b.) Disclosure of Confidential Information?
400
When services provided to the client involve participation by a treatment team, the client is informed of the team’s existence and composition.
What is (B.3.b.) Interdisciplinary Teams?
400
A counselor keeps parents informed of the current policies regarding confidentiality for their child who is receiving counseling.
What is (B.5.b.) Responsibility to Parents and Legal Guardians?
400
A client is informed before confidential information is disclosed and is involved in the disclosure decision-making process.
What is (B.2.e.) Minimal Disclosure?
500
A counselor informs a client when they must breach confidentiality only once the situation requiring such action has occurred.
What is a violation of (B.1.d.) Explanation of Limitations?
500
A counselor asks a client before allowing others to witness the session.
What is (B.6.d.) Permission to Observe?
500
A counselors discuss confidential information in a public place.
What is (B.3.c.) Confidential Settings?
500
When dealing with a family a counselor creates an agreement regarding confidentiality and documents it in writing.
What is (B.4.b.) Couples and Family Counseling?
500
A counselor who provides services to a terminal cancer patient who are considering suicide maintains confidentiality.
What is (B.2.b.) Confidentiality Regarding End-of-Life Decisions?