This document discusses privacy, confidentiality, and invasion of privacy in psychological testing. It defines privacy as controlling how one shares information about themselves, and confidentiality as protecting disclosed information from being shared without permission. Psychologists must inform clients about privacy and confidentiality limits upfront. Gathering only relevant information and obtaining consent protects against privacy invasions during testing. The ethical code also requires discussing privacy and confidentiality with any parties involved in psychological activities.
This document discusses privacy, confidentiality, and invasion of privacy in psychological testing. It defines privacy as controlling how one shares information about themselves, and confidentiality as protecting disclosed information from being shared without permission. Psychologists must inform clients about privacy and confidentiality limits upfront. Gathering only relevant information and obtaining consent protects against privacy invasions during testing. The ethical code also requires discussing privacy and confidentiality with any parties involved in psychological activities.
This document discusses privacy, confidentiality, and invasion of privacy in psychological testing. It defines privacy as controlling how one shares information about themselves, and confidentiality as protecting disclosed information from being shared without permission. Psychologists must inform clients about privacy and confidentiality limits upfront. Gathering only relevant information and obtaining consent protects against privacy invasions during testing. The ethical code also requires discussing privacy and confidentiality with any parties involved in psychological activities.
This document discusses privacy, confidentiality, and invasion of privacy in psychological testing. It defines privacy as controlling how one shares information about themselves, and confidentiality as protecting disclosed information from being shared without permission. Psychologists must inform clients about privacy and confidentiality limits upfront. Gathering only relevant information and obtaining consent protects against privacy invasions during testing. The ethical code also requires discussing privacy and confidentiality with any parties involved in psychological activities.
OF PRIVACY SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION: Definition of Privacy and Confidentiality Invasion of Privacy
Ethical Principles of Psychologists
and Code of Conduct Privacy is the control over the extent, timing, and circumstances of sharing oneself (physically, behaviorally, or intellectually) with others.
The evaluation of privacy also involves
consideration of how the Psychologists accesses information from the clients. Confidentiality pertains to the treatment of information that an individual has disclosed in a relationship of trust and with the expectation that it will not be divulged to others without permission in ways that are inconsistent with the understanding of the original disclosure.
During the informed consent process, clients must be
informed of the precautions that will be taken to protect the confidentiality of the data and be informed of the parties who will or may have access. Privacy is about people Confidentiality is about data Maintaining privacy and confidentiality helps to protect the clients from potential harms including psychological harm such as embarrassment or distress; social harms; and criminal or civil liability.
Especially in conducting Psychological
Testing, the primary risk to subjects is often an invasion of privacy or a breach of confidentiality. INVASION OF PRIVACY
● Invasion of Privacy is one of the Ethical Issues in Psychological Testing that
when a client is tested, they may feel their privacy is invaded.
● Informed consent – informing the client about both the nature of the information being collected and the purposes for the which results will be used
● Relevance – is the information gathered through assessment relevant to the
counseling? Counselor should be able to clearly state purpose and benefits of appraisal process Ethical Principles of Psychologists and 4.02 Discussing the Limits of Code of Conduct Confidentiality 4.01 Psychologists discuss with persons Maintaining Confidentiality (including, to the extent feasible, persons who are legally incapable of Psychologists have a primary obligation and giving informed consent and their take reasonable precautions to protect legal representatives) and confidential information obtained through or organizations with whom they stored in any medium, recognizing that the establish a scientific or professional extent and limits of confidentiality may be relationship the relevant limits of regulated by law or established by institutional confidentiality and the foreseeable rules or professional or scientific relationship. uses of the information generated through their psychological activities. Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
4.04 4.03 Minimizing Intrusions Recording on Privacy Before recording the voices or images of individuals to whom they provide services, Psychologists include in written and psychologists obtain permission from all such oral reports and consultations, only persons or their legal representatives. information germane to the purpose for which the communication is made. Ethical Principles of Psychologists and 4.06 Code of Conduct Consultations When consulting with colleagues, 4.05 psychologists do not disclose confidential Disclosures information that reasonably could lead to the identification of a client/patient, research participant, or other person or organization Psychologists may disclose confidential with whom they have a confidential information with the appropriate consent of the relationship unless they have obtained the organizational client, the individual prior consent of the person or organization or client/patient, or another legally authorized the disclosure cannot be avoided, and they person on behalf of the client/patient unless disclose information only to the extent prohibited by law. necessary to achieve the purposes of the consultation. Resources http://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/50988/1/unit- 4.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3us44TbDtt17tdalcFQmQI3ZZSeqQrrP59y4 ynz5G-CafSaS0K-AqXWD0
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