Rights and Responsibilities, and Accountabilities of Counselors (Confidentiality and Professional Responsibility)

  • Counselors respect a client’s right to privacy and avoid illegal and unwarranted disclosures of unwarranted information.
  • The right to privacy may be waived by the clients or their legally recognized representative.
  • The general requirement that the counselors keep the information confidential does not apply when disclosure is required to prevent clear and imminent danger to the client or others or when legal requirements demand that confidential information is be revealed.
  • Counselors who received information confirming that a client has a disease known to be communicable and fatal is justified in disclosing information to an identifiable third party, who by his/her relationship with the client is at high risk of contracting the disease.
  • When court orders the counselors to release confidential information without client’s permit, counselors request to the court that the disclosure should not be required due to potential harm to client or counseling relationship.
Group and Families
Professional Competence
Research and Training
Right to Privacy
  • In group work, counselors clearly define confidentiality and parameters for the specific group being entered, explain its importance, and discuss difficulties related to confidentiality involved in group work.
  • In family counseling, information about one family cannot be disclosed to another member without permission.
Right to Privacy
Minor Incompetent client
Group and Families
Consultation
When counseling clients who are minors or individuals who are unable to give voluntary, informed consent, parents or guardians may be included in the counseling process as appropriate.
Minor Incompetent client
Group and Families
Right to Privacy
Consultation
  • Counselors maintain necessary records for rendering professional services to their clients and as required by laws, regulations, or agency or institution procedures.
  • Counselors are responsible for securing safety and confidentiality of any counseling record they create, maintain, transfer, or destroy whether the records are written, taped, computerized, or stored in any other medium.
  • Counselors recognized that counseling records are kept for the benefits of the clients therefore provide access to record and copies of record when requested by competent clients unless it contains information that may be misleading or detrimental to the clients.
  • Counselors obtain written permission from clients to disclose or transfer records to legitimate third parties unless exception to confidentiality exists.
Right to Privacy
Standards Knowledge
Professional Competence
Records
Use of data derived from counseling relationships for purposes of training ,research , or publication is confined to content that is disguised to ensure the anonymity of the individuals involved. Identification of the client involved is permissible only when the client has reviewed the material and has agreed to its presentation or publication.
Standards Knowledge
Right to Privacy
Research and Training
Consultation
Information obtained in consulting relationship is discussed for professional purposes only with persons clearly concerned with the case. Before sharing information, counselors make efforts to ensure that there defined policies that effectively protect the confidentiality of information with other agencies serving the counselors clients.
Consultation
Group and Families
Right to Privacy
Records
Counselors have a responsibility to read, understand, and follow the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice
Group and Families
Professional Competence
Standards Knowledge
Right to Privacy
  • Counselors practice only within the boundaries of their competence based on their education, training, supervised experience, state and national professional credentials and appropriate professional experience. Counselors will demonstrate a commitment to gain knowledge, personal awareness, sensitivity, and skills pertinent to working with diverse client population.
  • Counselors practice specialty areas new with to them only after appropriate education, training, and supervised experience. While developing skills in new specialty area, counselors take step to ensure the competence of their work and to protect other from possible harm.
  • Counselors accept employment only for positions which they are qualified by education, training, supervise experience, state and national professional credentials, and appropriate professional experience.
  • Counselors continually monitor their effectiveness as professionals and take steps to improve their skills and knowledge.
  • Counselors refrain from offering or accepting professional services when their physical, mental, or emotional problems are like to harm clients or others.
Professional Competence
Minor Incompetent client
Records
Standards Knowledge
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