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An 11 page paper with three distinct parts. The first two sections present vignettes. The first focuses on confidentiality and privacy in the case of a child. The second focuses on personnel testing. The third section is an outline for a research paper that will focus on informed consent with discussion of this requirements when the client has developmental delays, such as autism. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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of the violence. Symptoms which have become worse in recent weeks, include nightmares, clinging to mother, easily cries and regressive behaviors. Maria signed an informed consent form. In general, confidentiality
issues when a minor is involved are confusing at best. All clients, even children are covered under the APAs (2010) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. The APAs
Code does not include any age limit on the different standards but there is an obvious difference between providing therapy to adults and providing services to children. Furthermore, there are
differences relative to the age of the child, e.g., young children versus adolescents. Confidentiality is embedded in the five General Principles of the Code and this issue is identified specially
in Standards 4, 8, 9, and 10. Standard 4 is exclusively about Privacy and Confidentiality (APA, 2010). Confidentiality must be preserved but at the same time, the therapist has an
ethical obligation to provide information to parents that will help them parent a child who is experiencing problems. Even a six-year-old is aware of whether or not they can trust
the therapist with what they feel. Fisher (2009) recommends that the confidentiality rules be established at the beginning of the process. Exactly how much information will be shared by
the therapist needs to be based on the childs age and maturity as well as the determined goals for the process (Fisher, 2009; Isaacs and Stone, 1001). In general, the
younger the child, the more the therapist would share with the parent. There are times when a therapist will break their confidentiality rules when treating adolescents and children. If the
child is involved in highly risky behavior would be one instance where the therapist might tell the parent. However, even here, the therapist must carefully weigh how much harm or
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