Confidentiality & Record Keeping in Counselling & Psychotherapy
eBook - ePub

Confidentiality & Record Keeping in Counselling & Psychotherapy

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Confidentiality & Record Keeping in Counselling & Psychotherapy

About this book

Confidentiality and record keeping are essential aspects of everyday counselling practice. This book introduces you to the law, ethics, guidance and policy relevant to counselling records and confidentiality, using examples from practice to apply this to a wide range of counselling situations and dilemmas. This edition is fully updated to cover recent developments in guidance, professional ethics, policy and law, including new chapters on GDPR and data protection law and online and telephone counselling practice. With an extensive glossary, checklists and useful legal and other resources, this is an essential resource for trainees and practitioners in the helping professions.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Legal Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Extended Contents
  8. List of Tables and Boxes
  9. About the Authors
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. Part I Confidentiality and the Law
  13. One Recording Confidences
  14. Two Confidentiality as a Legal Entitlement – the Clients’ Perspective
  15. Three Confidentiality as a Legal Responsibility – Obligations of the Therapist
  16. Part II Record Keeping and the Law
  17. Four Record Keeping – Basic Responsibilities
  18. Five Data Protection
  19. Six Information Technology, Telephone and Online Working, Electronic Recordings and Electronic Data Interchange
  20. Seven How Long Do We Keep Records?
  21. Part III Confidentiality and Disclosures: Information Sharing
  22. Eight Sharing Information Between Professionals
  23. Nine Sharing Information in Supervision and Training
  24. Ten Sharing Information in Research and Audit
  25. Part IV Confidentiality and Disclosures: Policy, Practice and Procedural Issues
  26. Eleven Developing Agency Policy and Practice and Evaluating Organisational Policies on Confidentiality and Record Keeping
  27. Twelve Mental Capacity, Vulnerable Adults and Consent
  28. Thirteen Children, Capacity and Consent
  29. Fourteen Victims, and Pre-trial Therapy with Vulnerable Adults and Children as Witnesses
  30. Part V Practice Dilemmas: checklists and scenarios on confidentiality and disclosures for reflection and discussion
  31. Fifteen Responding to Dilemmas – Ethical and Legal Practice
  32. Sixteen Disclosure Checklists
  33. Useful Organisations and Contacts
  34. List of Legal Cases
  35. List of Legal Cases
  36. Further Reading
  37. Glossary
  38. References
  39. Index