Confidentiality for mental health professionals : a guide to ethical and legal principles / Annegret Kåmpf [and others].

Contributor(s):

Kåmpf, Annegret

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bowen Hills, Qld. : Australian Academic Press, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (v, 136 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781921513435
1921513438

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Confidentiality for mental health professionals.DDC classification:

174.2 22

LOC classification:

KU1529.C65 C66 2009eb

NLM classification:

2010 B-742
WM 62

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Contents:

Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Concept of Confidentiality; Chapter 2: The Ethical Framework for Confidentiality; Chapter 3: Codes of Ethics; Chapter 4: The Legal Framework for Protecting Confidentiality; Chapter 5: Common Law Exceptions and Limitations to Maintaining Confidentiality; Chapter 6: Statutory Schemes; Chapter 7: Ethical Decision-Making in Confidentiality Dilemmas; Chapter 8: Quick Guides; Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; References; Index; Back cover.

Summary: Those who work in the mental health sector will sometimes need to consider whether they are ethically or legally obliged to disclose certain personal information revealed by their clients and patients to third parties. This book focuses on the actual decision-making process of disclosing confidential information to allow mental health professionals to find a solution that is ethically and legally sound and able to be recognised as such by external authorities.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Those who work in the mental health sector will sometimes need to consider whether they are ethically or legally obliged to disclose certain personal information revealed by their clients and patients to third parties. This book focuses on the actual decision-making process of disclosing confidential information to allow mental health professionals to find a solution that is ethically and legally sound and able to be recognised as such by external authorities.

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