Duty to Warn Jessica Hall PSYCH/545 09/4/2011 Dr. P. Duty to Warn The ethical dilemma I wish to explore is The Duty to Warn. This refers to the duty of a counselor‚ therapist to breach one of the most important bonds between a client and a therapist; the law of confidentiality. The therapist has the right to break confidentiality without the fear of being brought up for legal action. If the therapist believes that the client poses a danger‚ or is a threat to himself‚ someone else‚ or society
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Taking Action: A Ethical and Legal Duty to Warn and Protect Third Parties Stephanie Y. Symonette Texas Southern University Psychology 730‚ Ethical and Legal Issues in Mental Health July 13‚ 2010 Abstract The duty to warn refers to the responsibility of a counselor or therapist to breach confidentiality if a client or other identifiable person is in clear or imminent danger. The duty to protect is a counselor’s duty to reveal confidential client information
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Running Head: COUNSELING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Stepping up Counseling Responsibilities in a Socially Unjust Society Abstract Social Justice has been an emerging issue over the last century in today’s service environment of helping professionals. Social Justice is a mindset and an action for change. Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia defines social justice‚ as “the ability people have to realize their potential in a society where they live. Classically‚ ‘justice’ referred to
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therapists need to understand confidentiality‚ privileged information‚ and a therapists responsibility related to reporting suspected child abuse‚ elder abuse‚ and/or suicidal ideations‚ and possibly the most important of them all is a therapists duty to warn. The first case they were focusing on was the case related to a child that was presented in the ER and seen by Nurse Brown and now because she did not report any suspected child abuse she was charged with a crime. The statement that the character
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NU4028 ETHICS CONFIDENTIALITY (Dooley & McCarthy=DM 2012) I answered following layout from revision sheet A)Explain principle of confidentiality (you must also apply to case in exam question) Confidentiality places an obligation on nurses. Nurses must respect confidences that patients share Nurses must keep confident any information about patient from other parties(Mills 2002) Confidential information is defined as any private information understood not to be shared with a 3rd party(DM 2012)
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Court ruled that a Therapist can override the client’s rights to privacy when there is the potential for harm to others‚ although the police officer in this case not was given immunity and not held liable. This case gives birth to a law known as “duty to warn‚” that affects those in the helping profession. Forcing a human service professional to disclose information revealed in private‚ when others are at risk of being harmed. Now‚ those who are the helping profession is in an unusual predicament bound
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ethical issues such as; duty to report‚ duty to warn‚ confidentiality and privileged information. The first case scenario was about a foster child by the name of Dominic who was taken to the emergency room by his foster parent. Dominic was unconscious when he arrived at the hospital and he had a bruise under his eye and several bruises on his body. The foster parent explained that the child had suffered bruises from being jostled in his car seat. Ms. Brown‚ the nurse on duty‚ accepted the explanation
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the police and turned himself in. This tragedy caused her parents to sue the university on the basis that Dr. Moore should have warned them. The result from the case created what is known as the duty to warn the third party. Later on‚ this was changed and no longer was there a duty to warn but now a duty to protect the third party. Confidentiality is a legal protection and assurance of ones right to privacy to a high extent. This concept is concerned with a matter of keeping secrets due
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The duty to warn is a concept of law that is a required disclosure of information to an intended victim when a patient threatens to harm an individually identifiable person or persons and that the psychiatrist or other mental health provider believes that the patient is likely to actually harm the person. The duty to warn is if some health provider heard the patient that they are dealing with wanting threat someone‚ the provider must disclose information to the patient that he or she may cause danger
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Mr. Jo is undergoing a counselling session with his client‚ Alexander who is now 18 years old. Mr. Jo has been conducting these counselling sessions with Alexander for about three months. Along the sessions‚ Mr. Jo found out that Alexander is actually a homosexual in which he has feelings towards one of his classmate name Xavier. During the sessions‚ there were few times that Alexander disclosed his strong feelings towards Xavier to Mr. Jo. Initially‚ Alexander was just worried and shame about his
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