Informed Consent Flashcards
Importance
Remove wrong perceptions in counseling
Affects the client’s Mental, Emotional, and Social functioning
Respect the client’s rights and responsibilities
Client must understand the
Counseling process
2 aspects
Disclosure, Free Consent
Free consent is
Decision to engage in an activity without coercion or pressure
Disclosure
Release info the client needs to whether to start counseling
Client has SoC in CP
Sense of Control, Counseling process
Underlying ethical principle
Respect for autonomy
RFA
Don’t treat client like a child
Legal Risks
Failure to obtain/docu informed con Failure to control dangerous client Multiple rel Misdiagnosis Marked departure from established therapeutic practice Practicing beyond scope of competency Client abandonment Repressed/false mems
Purpose for clients
Make autonomous voluntary decisions regarding participation
To be informed about therapy
Understand alternatives to therapy
U benef and risk to tratment/assess
PAP code for incapable of informed con
Consider person’s preferences/best interest
Obtain approp permission from a legally authorized person
Provide app expl
Seek indiv’s assent
When consent is not permitted/required by law
Take reasonable steps to protect individual’s rights and welfare
If court ordered
Inform client of nature of anticipated services ( if s is court ordered/mandated)
Limits of confi
Appropriately document!!
Written or oral
Consent, assent, permission
PAP IC in therap
Seek frely given, adequately ic for psychother
Respect client’s rights to commit or withdraw from therapy
Discuss rights and responsibilities in working relationship
When providing techniques procedures not yet established
Nature of treatment Developing nature Risks Alternatives Consent for volun parti
When therapist is still undergoing training
Discuss matter and assure adequate supervision will be provided
Gather IC prior assessment EXCEPT
Mandated by law
Implied such as in routine educational, institutional and organizational activity
Purpose of ass is to DETERMINE indiv’s decisional capacity
When 3rd party interpreter is needed
Confi and secu of test results must he ensured
Limitations of obtained data must be discussed in results conc recc
Capacity for IC
Client Cap
Voluntariness
Comprehension