Privacy, Confidentiality, And Communication

With the rise of the internet, some people argue that privacy no longer exists. From the 2013 revelations of government surveillance of citizens’ communications to companies that monitor their employees’ internet usage, this argument seems to be increasingly true. Yet, Harvard Law professor Charles Fried states that privacy, “is necessarily related to ends and relations of the most fundamental sort: respect, love, friendship and trust” (Fried 477). However, Fried is not arguing that in a world where privacy, in its most simple terms, is becoming scarce that these foundations of human interactions are also disappearing. Instead, Fried expands on the traditional definition of privacy while contesting that privacy, although typically viewed

In the article, “Confidentiality: Concept analysis and clinical application”, author Winifred Ellenchild, examines confidentiality from both a theoretical perspective using concept analysis and through the use of a clinically based empirical investigation. The author compared the two approaches and discussed the features, credentials, costs, empirical referents, and implications for clinical practice. The results discussed in the article are those provided through a research project involving participants’ definitions of confidentiality and confidentiality issues.

Exceptions to confidentiality arise in a variety of ways. One way includes when confidentiality conflicts with governmental policy or law, exception could allow the practitioner to release confidential information without the consent of the client. Such instances that would be included in this category include abuse reporting, the duty to warn, which refers to the protection of the client and any intended victims from possible harm, monetary collection and direct

Confidentiality means keeping information given by or about an individual in the course of a professional relationship secure and safe from others. There are eight principals of good practice and anyone processing personal information must comply with them.

The duty to warn and protect is the result of the Supreme Court case Tarasoff v Regents of the University of California. (Gehring 1982) In this case the courts decided that a psychotherapist having knowledge of the

Patients often come to health care providers for physical concerns. They may overlook the psychological and emotional problems and view them as temporary stress caused by situational events. They probably think the symptoms caused by the stress may vanish eventually without any medical attention. I read the article about Pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed the Germanwings Flight 9525 in France and killed one hundred and fifty passengers. The reason why the pilot crashed the plane was unknown, but the pilot was treated for psychological issues for suicide before he received his pilot license (Klitzman, 2015). Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has analyzed the case and tried to change the policies to prevent similar tragedies from happening again. I think the pilot might be afraid of losing his job if he had reported his diagnosis to the FAA. He probably also did not want to be labeled as a psychiatric patient. Fear of losing what people have is fairly common when they try to hide things from the others, especially the authorities. Loss of confidence and trust on themselves and other people are other factors when people choose not to tell the truth. A few ideas about revising the FAA policies came across my mind. These ideas are based on promoting pilots’ wellbeing, building trust and confidence, and developing the transparency between pilots

The nature of the banker-customer relationship is one of agency. Amongst the duties that stem from this relationship, the bank’s duty of confidentiality is clearly an issue of great importance. The focus of this essay is on the scope and limitations of the bank’s duty, both to its customers as to the public. In order to analyse this it is necessary to firstly consider the idea of duty of confidentiality, Secondly, it is necessary to study the Court of Appeal’s judgement in the case of Tournier. Thirdly, this essay will take the Jack Committee report into consideration. Lastly, this paper will briefly mention the Banking Code, it will also discuss whether the principle in Tournier may be outdated and if so, whether it is in need of a new crystallised self, clearly stating the limits and boundaries of the bank’s duties both to the customer and to the public itself in the form of a statute. To conclude this essay will consider the future of the duty of confidentiality.

* Confidentiality – the steps that are taken when people’s information is not kept confidential and on a need to know basis

2. Confidentiality: Privacy or secrecy, limited to the people authorized to use the documents or information. Example, the therapists must

Confidentiality in the Healthcare arena can be simply defined as the moral and ethical duty of the Practitioner to keep all the patient’s bio-data under lock and key, and offer a disclosure of those facts that the patient is legally mandated to disclose or deems fit to enhance their positive health outcome. According to the Segen’s Medical Dictionary, “Confidentiality is the ethical principle that a physician may not reveal any information disclosed in the course of medical care, unless the patient who disclosed that information poses a threat to him, herself or others’’

The ethical dilemma I wish to explore is The Duty to Warn. This refers to the duty of a counselor, therapist to breach one of the most important bonds between a client and a therapist; the law of confidentiality. The therapist has the right to break confidentiality without the fear of being brought up for legal action. If the therapist believes that the client poses a danger, or is a threat to himself, someone else, or society as a whole, the therapist must decide how serious of a threat the client may be, then if he decides it’s a serious issue, he must notify the person in danger, which would e the third party, or the police, or other people who may be in the

Confidentiality is considered a core value or principal in the medical practice. Confidentiality is a right that all people have within the medical field. This is the requirement of health care providers to keep a person’s information exclusive unless the patient or the person consents in the form of a release to share that information with other people that practice. Usually the consent is given when a doctor wants to consult with a different doctor for example. In this case it would be for the betterment of the person.

Duty to warn is when a client expresses their intention to harm someone else, and that person is in imminent danger. The therapist must breach confidentiality and warn the intended targets of the threats being made about. The therapist may also need to take additional actions such as notifying the police if

Knowing the difference between privacy and confidentiality can be confusing. Privacy is the right of individuals to keep information about themselves from being disclosed; that is, people (our patients) are in control of others access to themselves or information about themselves. Patients decide who, when, and where to

When the information of a patient is not disclosed, patients mind are always at ease. They are not tensed about their level of confidentiality with their doctor’s breached (Mazor, Simon 2004).