Can confidentiality be broken?
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Can confidentiality be broken?
What is a breach of confidentiality? In short, a confidentiality breach is the disclosure of information to someone without the consent of the person who owns it. In other words, failing to respect a person’s privacy or the confidence in which they gave the information or data to you, by passing it onto someone else.
What is the difference between privacy confidentiality and privileged communication?
Confidentiality can be defined in terms of a counselor’s duty not to disclose information about their client, while privileged communication in a counseling context can be defined in terms of a client’s privilege not to have their counselor disclose information about them in a legal setting such as a court of law.
What is an example of privileged communication?
In addition to attorney-client privilege and conversations with medical professionals and religious officials, privileged communications include those between two spouses, accountant, and client, and, in some states, reporters and their sources.
What are the reasons for protecting privileged communications?
Privileged communications exist because society values the privacy or purpose of certain relationships. The established privileged communications are those between wife and husband, clergy and communicant, psychotherapist and patient, physician and patient, and attorney and client.
