Confidentiality: Some Options
The range: silence .... blabbing
Whom to tell:
- Only the client
- Family members of the client
- Teammates
- Authorities (police etc.)
- Colleagues
- Related professionals
- Insurance company
- Those endangered
- Those related to those who are endangered
- Who can help
- Those whom the client permits you to tell
What to tell:
- Nothing
- Facts without names
- Only what is necessary to prevent harm
- Whatever is legally required
- Whatever may help
- Whatever the client permits you to tell
Richard Lee,
rlee@uark.edu,
last modified: 26 June 2010