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Clinical Mental Health Counseling NCMHCE®

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Legal & Ethical Practice

Ethics Decision Tree

A Request for Records · L1

Fundamental concept

Working confidentiality, reporting, boundary, and telehealth questions in the right order, and knowing when the answer is jurisdictional.

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Scenario

You receive a phone call from someone identifying himself as the husband of a client. He says she is "going through something" and asks what she has been discussing in session. He is warm, clearly worried, and mentions details about her week that suggest he does know her well.

Work through each decision, the patient responds to your choices.