Assignment:
Clients with informed consent
Mental Health Counseling class
Question:
Professional counselors must follow legal and ethical guidelines in order to protect their clients' or students' privacy and confidentiality. However, they also need to protect their clients or students from self-harm and harm by others, and they need to protect people from potentially dangerous clients or students. At times, these duties may limit a client's or student's right to confidentiality. State laws contain specific statutes or regulations that mandate when a counselor must break confidentiality to protect clients or students from harm; schools and agencies will also have specific guidelines and policies that must be followed in these cases.
Create a brief case scenario reflective of the work you will do as a professional counselor that describes a client or student who is expressing one of the following:
1.Thoughts about harming himself or herself.
2. Feelings about wanting to harm another person.
3. Descriptions of being physically abused at home.
4. Memories of being sexually abused by a neighbor.