IV. Confidentiality

Maintaining Confidentiality

The active duty to safeguard all information shared by clients across both physical and digital media storage formats.

Limitations of Confidentiality

The standard requiring practitioners to disclose client data without consent only if required by law or to prevent imminent danger.

Recording

The requirement to obtain explicit client or guardian permission before recording voices or visual images.

Minimizing Invasions of Privacy

Revealing only highly relevant data during case consults while entirely omitting client identities.

Disclosures

Releasing confidential client records exclusively via written permission, unless legally mandated for protection from harm.

Test Data Disclosure Ban

The strict rule prohibiting the release of raw scores, test questions, or raw stimuli to unqualified parties.

Consultation Data Protection

Limiting shared information to what is necessary for a second opinion while omitting all identifying traits.

Use of Confidential Information for Other Purposes

The ban on revealing identifiable client information in public writings, media, or classroom lectures without written consent.