FRHD 4310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Risk Management, Implied Consent, Surrogate Decision-Maker

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 4310
• Professor: chuang

Document Summary

Interruptions in service: clients right of access to their files, rights pertaining to diagnostic labelling, the nature and purpose of confidentiality, benefits and risks of treatment, alternatives to traditional service, tape-recording or videotaping sessions. Specific, voluntary, informed, given by capable patient, absence of duress. Myths: completed at the initial counselling session/intake by having client sign consent forms, restricted to the limits of confidentiality, risk management to protect the practitioner, quickly understood and retained by the service user. The united nations convention on the rights of the child. Record keeping: an essential standard of professional practice, recording and storage of information about service users and who has access to the information, recorded information should only include pertinent and essential information. Importance for the maintenance of confidentiality and respect for the privacy of service users. From a clinical perspective: rk provides a history that a professional can use in reviewing the course of treatment.