Ethical Information
For every mental health clinician, understanding the ethical standards of your own profession is always the appropriate starting point for good ethical practice in any setting.
Confidentiality and Informed Consent are among the most complex aspects of clinical practice, because they arise across all areas of professional life, and they have inter-related ethical and legal implications and complications. This section includes documents and summaries about therapists’ ethical obligations regarding confidentiality and informed consent. For reference about these and other aspects of ethical practice, this section also provides links to many clinical Ethics Codes.
A separate section of this website contains Models for Ethical Decision Making .
- Informed Consent Chart for
Counselors, Psychologists, and Social Workers - Informed Consent Discussions in Couple & Family & Child Therapy
- Informed Consent Discussions in Group Therapy
- Selected Ethical Standards About Informed Consent:
Counselors (from ACA Code of Ethics) - Selected Ethical Standards About Informed Consent:
Psychologists (from APA Code of Ethics) - Selected Ethical Standards About Informed Consent:
Social Workers (from NASW Code of Ethics)
- Confidentiality and it’s Limits in My Practice
- Confidentiality Ethics – Yesterday and Today
- Protecting Confidentiality Rights: An Ethical Practice Model
- Selected Ethical Standards About Confidentiality:
Counselors (from ACA Code of Ethics) - Selected Ethical Standards About Confidentiality:
Psychologists (from APA Code of Ethics) - Selected Ethical Standards About Confidentiality:
Social Workers (from NASW Code of Ethics) - Confidentiality: Using An Ethical Practice Model to Integrate Ethical Standards, State Laws, & HIPAA
