Question

Discuss confidentiality in mental health related to children/adolescents and apply to a clinical situation.

Answer 1

In the clinical situations ethical considerations play a very crucial role in children/adolescents therapeutic process. Moral inquiries in prescription and the life sciences are the subject of not one but rather two generally new scholarly fields: "bioethics" and "wellbeing and humanrights".  Bioethicists cultivate open learning and cognizance both of good logic and logical advances and they can take note of how therapeutic innovation can encounter the importance of wellbeing and ailment and, at last, the way we live beyond words.

There are many pre-defined ethical considerations which are supposed to be taken care of in the practice. In the practical clinical process we do face many problems where the question of following those ethics rises. This can happen in various situations where it becomes extremely difficult for a therapist to follow the ethics and a big dilemma situation arises.

For example:

When a therapist knows there is a mental health problem with the child n he/ she has been referred to the therapist but the parents or the guardians do not give their consent.

In the case of confidentiality, therapists are not supposed to disclose the information discussed with them but many a times, the nature of information is such that the therapist is in a dilemma of how to convey the information which is actually very important as it concerns the child especially.

The information legal in nature is also supposed to be disclosed but the problem of breaking the confidentiality arises on the therapists part as there is no or less consent of the client and the family which is also a really big challenge faced by the therapists. For the research purposes too, even if we have the approval still it becomes really difficult to get the consent of the participants whom we want to include in the research and also there are dropout rates as well. Thus, it becomes a very big challange to always follow the ethical considerartions rigorously.