Record Keeping in Psychotherapy and Counseling Protecting Confidentiality and the Professional Relationship

Name: Record Keeping in Psychotherapy and Counseling Protecting Confidentiality and the Professional Relationship
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ISBN: 9780415892612

ISBN-10: 0415892619

ISBN-13: 9780415892612

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Ellen T. Luepker

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As in the first edition, Record Keeping in Psychotherapy and Counseling provides a general, supportive framework for understanding the reasons surrounding confidentiality and privacy parameters. It clarifies dilemmas and strategies surrounding these issues in order to help professionals protect themselves and their clients, patients, students, and supervisees. To bring the book up-to-date, the author references new books, articles, laws, and court decisions pertaining to record keeping and confidentiality, includes practitioners' experiences implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (which was enacted just after the first edition was published), and adds a…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


The Author


Introduction



Purposes of Clinical Records



Documenting Informed Consent



Characteristics and Contents of Good Records



Confidentiality in an Electronic Age



Exceptions to Confidentiality



Developing Policies and Procedures for Protecting Confidentiality and Managing Its Exceptions in an Electronic Era



Boundary Challenges: Impact of Electronic Communication on the Therapeutic Relationship



Retaining and Destroying Inactive Records



Using Patients' Records as Therapeutic Tools



Clinical Supervision Records



Teaching Record Keeping



Psychotherapists and Records in the Legal System



Planning for Interruptions or Closures of Psychotherapy Practices


Epilogue


References



Sample Client/Patient Information



Sample Treatment Plan Form



Sample Revised Treatment Plan Form



Sample Closing Summary Form



Sample Consent for Treatment of Minor Child Form



Sample Authorization for Release of Information Form



Sample Clinical Supervision Contract



Sample Informed Consent Statement for Mental Health Evaluation in a Personal Injury Case



Sample Letter from a Psychotherapist to a Judge in a Child Custody Case



List of Selected Professional Organizations and Their Web Sites



Contents of Accompanying CD


Index