Confidentiality & Record Keeping in Counselling & Psychotherapy : bacp | counselling changes lives / Barbara Mitchels, Tim Bond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchels, Barbara, author.

Bond, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counseling and psychotherapy.

Counseling ethics and the law.

Professional issues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages).

Edition:

Third edition

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021.

Summary:

Longer description: Confidentiality and record keeping are essential aspects of everyday counselling practice. This book introduces you to the law and policy on record keeping and confidentiality, and using case studies and vignettes applies this to practical situations or dilemmas. This edition is fully updated to cover recent developments, policy and law, including the BACP Ethical Framework, GDPR and data protection law, and a new chapter on online and telephone counselling practice. With an extensive glossary, and lists of relevant cases, and law, this is an essential resource for trainees and practitioners in the helping professions. Further info: This market-leading student text introduces the law and policy on record keeping and confidentiality, and applies this to practical situations or dilemmas arising in counselling practice. This new edition will reflect changes in policy and law and developments in practice since 2013. The book forms part of the Legal Resources Counsellors and Psychotherapists series, co-published with the BACP. The Third Edition will include new or updated content on: the new BACP Ethical Framework, and BACP Guidance on Ethics in Researching the Counselling Professions, new BACP Professional Conduct Procedure, PSA Registration for BACP members, data protection law, new relevant law in other areas, e.g. consent in the Mental Health Act Code of Conduct 2015, developments in safeguarding, GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, Coroner law, Brexit arrangements, technological advances in use of online working, etc. - A new chapter on 'Information and technology'. A new chapter on online and telephone working in the counselling professions, relationship of data protection and new technology, safeguarding information, therapist responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others (e.g. in EAP, Counselling agencies etc. where data is uploaded to cloud storage). - New vignettes in Chapter 16 on Practice Dilemmas, including case studies of online working. - Updated glossary. Using reflective questions, sample dilemmas and case scenarios throughout, the book illustrates how to practically address the difficult confidentiality and record keeping issues that therapists regularly face. Current legal guidelines and frameworks are interspersed throughout the book which, along with revised disclosure checklists and links to useful organisations and contacts, ensure trainee and practising therapists are well versed in current best-practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-03-623201-8

9781036232016

OCLC:

1269586878

Publisher Number:

275276