Hippa Ethical Standards

In order to be a licensed APA clinical psychologist a person must know the APA ethical standards and incorporate them into their practice. Even if the person is just a student. There are a total of ten APA ethical standards and they are set in place to protect the client and the psychologist. Resolving ethical issues is an important standard for a psychologist to master. In the human services field, ethical issues are bound to happen. In fact, they might even occur on daily bases depending on the setting that the psychologist is working in. For example, sometimes government agencies don’t follow procedures and they expect the psychologist to turn away from the APA standards simply because the psychologist have been working with them for a number
If a psychologist doesn’t maintain his confidentiality he could loose his license. Similar to HIPPA, psychologists have to protect the client’s records. For example, if a client wanted his records himself he would have to fill out a form and as a safety precautions, they would be mailed to him at his house. This will help with any negative behavior he might have after reading the notes. If I were a psychology I would shred any paper work that had clients information on it. I would defend my self by telling whoever is asking me the question that I am protecting the client and following the APA standards. Psychologists have a primary obligation and take reasonable precautions to protect confidential information obtained through or stored in any medium, recognizing that the extent and limits of confidentiality may be regulated by law or established by institutional rules or professional or scientific relationship (American Psychological Association,2010)
Since I want to work in marriage therapy one of the first things that I would do is to allow the clients to know the policy that I have. I would do my best to describe the role that I play in the situation. I would reiterate that I cannot be friend with them on social media and that I a don’t give out my personal cell phone to anyone, if the clients ask why cant they have my personal phone number? I would gladly tell them that its part of my ethics as a professional psychologist and its nothing personal. In regards to all of the ethics above, I would defend myself by always reefing back to the APA ethics. Once I become license I have to protect my license. So I wouldn’t do anything that would jeopardies that. When psychologists provide services to several persons in a group setting, they describe at the outset the roles and responsibilities of all parties and the limits of confidentiality (American Psychological Association,