Confidentiality & Record Keeping in Counselling & Psychotherapy

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4462-7452-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: Legal Resources Counsellors & Psychotherapists

This indispensible text is your students' first point of reference when faced with a situation or dilemma of a legal nature regarding record keeping or confidentiality issues. Reflecting changes in policy and law and developments in practice since its last publication in 2008, this new edition has been expanded into 14 new and thoroughly revised chapters.

New content includes:

- The latest Data Protection Act guidance including data protection implications when working with technology and for online therapy

- Greater content on sharing information, including sharing information in supervision, training, research, audit and, crucially, across professions

- Expanded content on mental capacity with separate chapters for children and vulnerable adults

- A new chapter on pre-trial therapy with adults and children, including Special Measures, Crown Prosecution Service guidance and victim support

- A new chapter on practice dilemmas, providing advice and encouraging further discussion and reflection

- The role of supervision and of the supervisor

Using reflective questions, sample dilemmas and case scenarios throughout, the authors illustrate how to practically address the difficult confidentiality and record keeping issues that therapists regularly face. Current legal guidelines and frameworks are interspersed throughout the book which, along with revised disclosure checklists and links to useful organisations and contacts, ensure trainee and practising therapists are well versed in current best-practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bond, Tim

Mitchels, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Confidentiality and the law
Recording confidences
Confidentiality as a legal entitlement – clients’ perspective
Confidentiality as legal responsibility – obligations of the therapist
Record keeping and the law
Record keeping – basic responsibilities
Data protection, freedom of information and technology
How long do we keep records?
Confidentiality and disclosures: information sharing
Sharing information between professionals
Sharing information in supervision and training
Sharing information in research and audit
Confidentiality and disclosures: policy, practice and procedural issues
Developing agency policy and practice and evaluating organisational policies on confidentiality and record keeping
Mental capacity, vulnerable adults and consent
Children, capacity and consent
Victims, and pre-trial therapy with vulnerable adults and children
Practice dilemmas: scenarios on confidentiality and disclosures for reflection and discussion
Responding to dilemmas - ethical and legal practice
Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Mitchels, Barbara
Dr Barbara Mitchels, is a practising psychotherapist and a Fellow of BACP. A retired solicitor, Barbara, combines the professions of law and therapy in CPD workshops, providing a specialist consultancy service for counselling professionals and the BACP and contributions to the BACP’s Good Practice in Action Legal Guidance series. She led the writing of the Ethical Guidelines for Research in the Counselling Professions (BACP 2018a), and other recent publications include Children and Vulnerable Witnesses in Court: A Practice Handbook (Wiley, Simmonds and Hill 2018).

Bond, Tim
Tim Bond is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor to the University of Malta. He has a longstanding commitment to researching and writing about professional ethics for the talking therapies and promoting mental well-being. He is currently a consultant to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy on professional ethics and standards, a member of the Ethics Committee for the British Psychological Society and the Executive Council of the International Association for Counselling. He is a registered member of BACP and provides counselling supervision and training workshops.