Midterm Flashcards
“Is the right of a person to choose what others may know about them and under what circumstances”
Individually defined
What you get and what you give must be equal
Privacy
- is the ethical responsibility required of all national counseling organizations and some licensing boards that nothing disclosed within the counseling session will be revealed to another person without the client’s expressed consent.” Do not use interchangeably with privileged communication and privacy.
- a patient’s identifiable medical information may not be disclosed by the patient’s health care provider, health care service plan or contractor, without the patient’s authorization. (Civ. Code § 56.10).
Confidentiality
Physical safety of the private information collected
It is measures that organizations implement to protect info and systems
Maintains the confidentiality of info
Ensure the integrity and availability of that info
Organization’s ability to keep its promises of confidentiality
Password protected for electronic notes
Security
Do you have to break confidentiality for court ordered information ?
By a court pursuant to an order of that court. Court orders are typically signed by judges having jurisdiction over the proceeding.
You must disclose information!
Do you have to break confidentiality for a subpoena?
By a party to a proceeding before a court or administrative agency pursuant to a subpoena, subpoena duces tecum, notice to appear before the court, or any provision authorizing discovery in a proceeding before a court or administrative agency. However, the patient must be given an opportunity to object. If he or she does object, the Mental Health Professional should do nothing further until the dispute is resolved by the court. It the patient fails to respond at all, the Mental Health Professional must assert the Patient-Psychotherapist Privilege on the patient’s behalf and produce no records until the matter is resolved.
Types of Child Sexual Abuse
- Physical
- Sexual
- Neglect
When do you report child abuse?
Call ASAP file a report within 36 hours including weekends
Types of Elder Abuse
Physical Abuse Sexual Abuse Neglect Abandonment (granny dumping) Financial Abuse Isolation
When do you report elder abuse?
Call ASAP file written report within 2 WORKING days weekends not included
Only one right way; everyone is the same
If the law says so it’s TRUE!
(ethnocentrism: using one’s own culture as bases)
Only one fundamental truth
Absolutivism
Wrong/Right
What is right is relative to what you are- Culture?
Embraces more than one truth exists in determination of human behavior
Relativism
people have different moral beliefs which affect how they behave and define a problem
Descriptive Relativism
each culture belief if right within that culture
Normative Relativism
The right intention is more important than the outcome
Ex. I spank you because I love you.
Always a mindfulness of realization that some aspect of reality exist
Intentionalism
Ethics judged by consequence
If I don’t get caught it’s okay
If I serve the greater good then it is ethical; Justify means!
Consequentialism/ Utilitarianism
