forensic: confidentiality
The obligation of professionals not to disclose information received from a client
without the client's consent. While primarily an ethical obligation, confidentiality
may also be a legal duty. (see privilege).*
Also: HIPAA
Books and Other
Media:
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Fiction
- Freeny, Michael Terminal Consent
Paperback 1998
"Terminal Consent is a medical thriller set against a
revealing backdrop of managed care and the Internet.
Amidst a murder and a love affair, a young psychologist
is pitted against a sinister HMO that profits from patient
deaths. She witnesses the open trading of private patient data, the destruction of lives
from revealed secrets, and a computer named MOM who makes life and death decisions."
- Mumford DVD Loren Dean, Hope Davis,
Jane Adams, David Paymer
1999
*Committee on Psychiatry and Law, of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry The Mental Health
Professional and the Legal System Paperback 1992 American
Psychiatric Press
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