Protecting confidentiality rights
The need for an ethical practice model
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8712317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Alice Fisher (0000-0002-1299-9734, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0003-066x.63.1.1 |
| PMID | 18193977 |
| OpenAlex | W2090871301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
All psychologists must uphold the same ethical standards about confidentiality even though each state imposes different legal limits on their ability to protect clients' confidences. The resulting ethical-legal confusion is exacerbated by legally based confidentiality training that treats legal exceptions as if they were the rule and fosters the impression that attorneys are now the only real experts about this aspect of practice. This article provides an ethics-based confidentiality practice model that clarifies the ethical rule and puts its legal exceptions into ethical perspective. Like the Confidentiality section of the American Psychological Association's (2002) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, this outline would apply to all psychologists regardless of state laws, but the details of its implementation would vary according to role and setting. It can be used as a universal training outline, a consultation and supervision tool, a guide to professional practice, and a basis for clearer ongoing conversation about the ethics of "conditional confidentiality." Psychologists can use this practice model to regain their status as experts about the confidentiality ethics of their own profession
Confidentiality · Confusion · Conversation · Engineering ethics · Ethical code · Legal Ethics · Political science · Professional Conduct · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Engineering · Ethics in medical practice · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |