Analyzing Your Sources Form
WRTG 121: Winter 2020
Article Title:
URL: web address if it is online: https://doi.org/10.1111/ap.12002
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When it was published:
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Questions the author is wondering about –
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What is the current thinking that these/these questions are digging into?
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Name___________________________________
Adolescents, Risk Behaviour and Confidentiality: When Would Australian
Psychologists Breach Confidentiality to Disclose Information to Parents?
Rony E Duncan
Ben J. Williams
Ann Knowles
The authors are specialists in medicine
Australian Psychologist
2012
Stephen Behnke
Elizabeth Warner
Lena P
What is client confidentiality? According to the article, client confidentiality
is the requirement that psychiatrists, therapists, mental health professionals
and psychologists undertake to protect the privacy of their clients through
ensuring that none of the content of is revealed to the third party.
What is the law associated with confidentiality?
What are the exceptions to the confidentiality rules
Experts have noted that confidentiality has applied in many medical
situations. The problems have been said to affect different groups of patients
ranging from children, adolescents and older people. Notably, the issues of
confidentiality among adolescents are one on the topics that come in time and
again by many authors. The issues are important to the medical field as we
need to determine the essences of maintaining confidentiality among the
minors. The question is essential as after been addressed by many workshops
and by graduates, secrecy among children has not been given the weight it
deserves.
According to Behnke (2002), the issue of confidentiality for the clients needs
more of the attention not only to the medical staff but also to lawmakers.
Confidentiality is also a platform for the introduction of the ethic practices for
the medical staff who may be in a position to handle any information given by
the patients.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the
organization that is charged with the role of ensuring that privacy for the
patients is maintained. According to Warner (2008), there are federal laws that
 set the standards that are aimed at protecting medical records for patients and
personal health information. The laws have been put in place to ensure that
information about mental health and psychotherapy are also private.
According to Lena, there are a group of individuals who are excepted from
confidentiality law. Mental health professionals who are licensed are excluded
in some cases: one of the cases is when the patient becomes a threat to others,
or himself/herself. According to Behnke (2002), in such circumstances, the
therapist is obligated to notify the people who may be in danger or the one
who can keep the client out of danger.

Many people concur with the topic of therapist confidentiality, keeping in

mind that different clients have different issues. Keeping the medical health
records in a position that an-authorized individual can access them may be a
source of high levels of stigma. Despite many people thinking that
confidentiality should be for older people, the article also introduces the
essences of maintaining privacy for adolescents.

What are the key terms that these discussions are changing our understanding of?

➢ Term Confidentiality of adolescent- Many people think that the minors do not
should be in a position to sign the consent form. The article suggests that the
minors are taken as children, and the parents should sign on their behalf.

➢ Term Therapeutic relationship- People think clients easily disclose crucial

information to the therapist. The reality is that if one notes that the
information may eventually land on the person, they do not intend, it will be
hard to disclose such information.

➢ Term Confidentiality form- Paperwork that is first offered by the therapist to the
client giving details of the privacy policy.

What data or evidence is gathered? Primary data was collected through a structured interview to establish ways of
(method) ensuring confidentiality. Besides, the research sought to determine whether a
therapist should treat adolescents the same way as adults on issues of privacy.

How is it gathered? (method) structured interview

How is it interpreted? (method) There was a challenge in comparing the available data as it was old hence
having a possibility of being outdated.

What does the writer, and the experts they draw on, think about the questions?

Restate, in a summary kind of way, what your source thinks about the
questions or issues they have raised? What do your sources’ sources think
along the same lines?
The article emphasizes the need to been mindful of how therapists should
follow the set laws of confidentiality. They should realize that treatment of
adolescents in the modern world has raised unique challenges due to conflict
that may arise in case of inadequate disclosure of their information. Similarly,
some laws safeguard the privacy policy of the clients guided by the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).