Confidentiality for Mental Health Professionals: A Guide to Ethical and Legal Principles

by Annegret Kampf

Overview

This book is relevant to a wide range of professionals working in the mental health sector such as psychologists, social workers, counsellors, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781921513428
Publisher:	Australian Academic Press
Publication date:	06/10/2010
Edition description:	General ed.
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Annegret Kåmpf is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Monash Universityand a researcher involved with two projects funded by the Australian Research Council. She is a qualified lawyer and graduated from Mannheim University, Germany. She also has a Master of Bioethics and Health Law from Otago University, New Zealand where she worked as a Research Fellow investigating international approaches to incapacity principles in mental health care.

Bernadette McSherry is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and professor of Law at Monash University. She has honours degrees in Arts and Law and Masters of Law from the Universityof Melbourne, a PhD from York University, Canada, and a graduate Diploma in Psychology from Monash University. Professor McSherry has written extensively in the areas of mental health law and criminal law.

James Ogloff is Professor of Clinical Forensic Psychology at Monash Universityand the Director of Psychological Services as the Victorian Institute of Forensic mental health. Professor Ogloff is a Fellow of the Canadian, American, and Australian psychological societies and has worked in the field of clinical and forensic psychology in a variety of settings, including jails, prisons, forensic psychiatric clinics and hospitals since 1984. He has published 12 books and more than 160 scholarly articles and book chapters.

Alan Rothschild is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria who holds a Master of Laws degree from the Universityof Melbourne and a PhD from Monash University. He has written extensively in the area of medico/legal issues and is currently a sessional researcher at Monash University.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Concept of Confidentiality The Ethical Framework for Confidentiality Codes of Ethics The Legal Framework for Protecting Confidentiality Common Law Exceptions and Limitations to Maintaining Confidentiality Statutory Schemes Ethical Decision-Making in Confidentiality Dilemmas Quick Guides Table of Cases Table of Statutes References Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This book explores in a lively and accessible way the clinical, legal, and ethical dimensions to the modern notion of confidentiality in the mental healthcare environment, providing both guidance and clarity in this fraught and important aspect of practice. — Professor Ian Freckelton SC, Victorian Bar and Monash UniversityThis guide is exemplary in its succinctness and focus. — Professor Sidney Bloch, Department of Psychiatry and Centre for Health and Society, Universityof Melbourne Mental health practitioners and students in Australia will find this book to be a very useful asset. — Professor Alfred Allan, School of Psychology and Social Science, Edith Cowan University