Confidentiality in counseling
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All Around The African World Museum

& Resource center

may 2007

Volume 3, issue 5

Neighborhood News

Confidentiality in counseling

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Tips for dealing with stress

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NBuf

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may Awareness Month

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Neighborhood meetings

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Jobs in    lansing

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Job/email        info

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Special points of interest:

· Confidentiality

· Stress

· Neighborhood Meetings

· Jobs in Lansing

· Events in Lansing
Text Box: They are also required to report to proper authorities if a client reports they want to commit suicide or they plan to kill someone. Issues they are not required to report unless they feel someone is in direct danger are sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV and Hepatitis. The law requires this information be kept confidential unless the person plans to infect someone who is unaware of their medical condition. The benefit of counseling far outweigh concerns and can actually help alleviate some concerns. Wendolyn D. Davis, BS, MBA/HRM Text Box: There are many benefits to counseling. Unfortunately minorities are under represented as those who seek counseling. Reasons for seeking counseling can include stress from work or family, death in the family, the loss of a job or needing help to make career or life choices. Reasons don’t have to be as extreme as what we see on television or in the media. If you are interested in counseling there are some things you should be aware of. One large concern in counseling is who has the right to know what you have said—confidentiality. Counselors, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists Text Box: and social workers are required to keep your conversations confidential. Even under the case of a supervisor, they should not give names or anything specific that can identify a client. There are exceptions to confidentiality. Those exceptions have to do with whether someone is going to harm themselves or harm others, some issues involving minors and reports of sexual or physical abuse. Counselors and therapists, etc. are mandatory reporters. This means if they are told of physical or sexual abuse of a child they have to report this.