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Dr. Jim Psychologist Mentor Guide
http://www.drjimpsychologist.com
Dr. Jim Leonidas Ph.D., C. Psych.
Registered Clinical Counselling Psychologist
Canadian Register Health Service Providers Psychology
1.416.484.9912 voice mail
Skype Name: drjimpsychologist.com
10 MCNAIRN Avenue Suite H1 Toronto Ontario Canada M5M 2H5
Nearest major Intersection LAWRENCE and YONGE Streets LAWRENCE PARK NORTH TORONTO Neighborhood GREATER TORONTO AREA GTA
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato
Summary
Confidentiality
5 Legal Exceptions To Your Right To Confidentiality
3 important Ethical Matters About Confidentiality
Your physically felt body is in fact part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people, in fact, the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from inside. Eugene Gendlin
Confidentiality
Everything you tell me, your psychologist, is strictly private and confidential. I cannot, and will not, tell anyone else what you have told me, or that you are in counselling with me, without your prior written permission. You may ask me to share information with whomever you chose, and you can change your mind and revoke that permission at any time. I will always act to protect your privacy, only revealing the least amount of information necessary, even if you do release me in writing to share information about you.
Life always has its own forward direction, whatever else might also be going on. Eugene Gendlin
5 Legal Exceptions To Your Right To Confidentiality
1. If I have good reason to believe that a client intends to inflict serious harm upon another person, I must attempt to inform that person of the client's intentions. I must also contact the police, and ask them to protect the intended victim of violence.
2. If I have good reason to believe or suspect that a client is placing a child at risk for sexual or physical abuse, I must report it to the Children’s Aid Society and the police.
3. If I believe that a client is in imminent danger of seriously harming himself or herself, I am required by law to legally break confidentiality, call the client's family members, the police, and other appropriate health care professionals. If such a situation does come up, I will take steps to discuss the situation with the client, and explore other options before I take this step, unless there is a good reason not to do so.
4. I am required by law to release a client’s record, if I am subpoenaed by a court of law. Let me know, if you have been involved in any kind of legal matter, or court proceedings in the past, currently, or anticipated in the future, so that I can take the utmost care possible to protect the privacy of your file. If you or your previous partner has a custody agreement, or court custody hearing, I will need to know about it.
5. I am obligated by law to report any regulated health care professional, such as your physician, dentist or physiotherapist, etc., to their professional regulatory body if that professional, has communicated or expressed any sexually inappropriate words or actions to you as their client.
If there is in you something bad, sick, or unsound, let it inwardly be and breathe. That's the only way it can evolve and change into the form it needs. Eugene Gendlin
3 important Ethical Matters About Confidentiality
1. If you are in couples counselling with me, and you and your partner decide to have some individual sessions as part of the couples therapy, what you say in those individual sessions will be considered to be part of the couples therapy, and can, and probably will be discussed in our joint sessions. If you choose to tell me something your spouse does not know, I cannot ethically agree to keep it from them, if it would harm them not to know. I will work with you to decide on the best long-term way to handle situations like this. Furthermore, if counselling does not resolve marital difficulties, and you seek a separation or divorce, you must agree that you will not request my testimony, or your client record for either side in any legal proceedings, although the court may order me to testify.
2. Children, infants, and adolescents in counselling who are under the age of 12, have few legal rights, to keep what they tell me from their parents, if the parents ask me. Between the ages of 12 and 18, however, as the young person becomes more able to understand and choose, he or she assumes legal rights. If this is relevant to you, please understand that while most of the specific things you tell me will be treated as confidential and private because that would assist with your counselling, your parents or guardians do have the right to general information on some important matters, and on how your counselling is progressing, so they can make well-informed decisions about our work together.
3. When I am involved with several members of a family, the confidentiality situation can become more complicated because I have a mixture of responsibilities with different members. At the start we will clarify the purpose of our counselling, and my role in regard to your family. Only with this clarity can we discuss, and figure out any limitations regarding confidentiality that might exist.
The essence of working with another person is to be present as a living being. And that is lucky, because if we had to be smart, or good, or mature, or wise, then we would probably be in trouble. But what matters is not that. What matters is to be a human being, with another human being, to recognise the other person as another being in there. Eugene Gendlin
Jim
Dr. Jim Psychologist Mentor Guide
http://www.drjimpsychologist.com
Dr. Jim Leonidas Ph.D., C. Psych.
Registered Clinical Counselling Psychologist
Canadian Register Health Service Providers Psychology
1.416.484.9912 voice mail
Skype Name: drjimpsychologist.com
10 MCNAIRN Avenue Suite H1 Toronto Ontario Canada M5M 2H5
Nearest major Intersection LAWRENCE and YONGE Streets LAWRENCE PARK NORTH TORONTO Neighborhood GREATER TORONTO AREA GTA
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato
What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes. Most people don’t know this. They think that by not permitting the feeling of their negative ways they make themselves good. On the contrary, that keeps these negatives static, the same from year to year. A few moments of feeling it in your body allows it to change. If there is in you something bad, or sick, or unsound, let it inwardly be, and breathe. That’s the only way it can evolve and change into the form it needs. Eugene Gendlin