Is the part of my job to protect your confidentiality. Below are some regulation that you need to know regarding your confidentiality.
Counseling Services
This regulation are dedicated to services that is related to counseling and consultation regardless the service is individual in nature or couple and family in nature.
- I am responsible to protect the confidentiality of any psychological report and record that I make during your session.
- For most of the individual services process, I am not able to speak to anyone about your session except other professional that is related to your session. For example, if your session need to have Psychological Test I must speak to the related Psychologist about your situation and the purpose of the Psychological Test. This is must happen since the Psychologist will take responsibility of the report.
- Should your session need to be disclosed to other related profession such as other mental health profession, I would do it with your consent.
Institutional Services
This regulation are dedicated to services that is related to institutional (such a company and school) services.
- If the institution uses service that involve psychological test and administered to their staff for the company purpose (such as recruitment and assessment), then the report will be given to the institution and not the prospective employee. It is up to the institution whether the institution want to disclose the result to the prospective employee or not.
- If the institution uses services that involve counseling for the staff (for example work-stress counseling for the staff) that the report will be kept by me and will not be disclosed to the institution.
- If the institution uses services that involve counseling for the staff (for example work-stress counseling for the staff) and psychological test are needed. I will first ask the consent of the staff to inquire the institution to provide the budget for the psychological test.
- If the institution uses services that involve mass subordinates (such a training, or out-bond). I usually ask permission to write their institution in my resume. However, it is up to the company whether I am allowed to do it or not.
Confidentiality Disclosure without Client’s Consent.
There are several situation that I am obligated to disclose your situation or session. The situations are:
- If based on our session/s you are endangered to your self or to anyone in your environment.
- If based on our session/s you are the victim of any abusive activity done by other party.
- If based on our session/s you are breaking the law.
Should any of this situations happen, I will disclose the information to the appropriate party. For example, if you are endanger to yourself, I will disclose your information to the closest person or family. Another example, if you are breaking the law, I will disclose your information to the legal police officer.