This is a compilation of selected submissions to the “Notebook on Ethics, Legal Issues and Standards for Counsellors”, a feature in COGNICA.
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- When Can a Client be Denied Access to Their Counselling Record? An Answer from an Adjudicated Complaint.
- Let’s Give Informed Consent The Attention it Needs
- The Impairment of Counsellors and Other Health Professionals: Some Ethical Challenges
- Registration Denied – Let’s Have a Look at How and Why it Happened
- A Few Interesting Decisions from Case Law
- Child Abuse and the Duty to Report
- Custody Evaluations
- Dealing with Requests for Information
- Duty to Warn
- Guidelines for Dealing with Subpoenas and Court Orders
- Issue of Confidentiality when a Client Dies
- Landmark Decision with Implications for Counsellors in Canada
- Ethics, E-mail, and the Counselling Profession
- Parent Denied Access to Counselling Notes
- Personal Information Protection and Electronics Document Act (PIPEDA)
- Record Keeping Ideas for Counsellors
- Reflections on Ethics Education in Counsellor Education Programs
- Scope of Practice for Counsellors
- Sexual Abuse of Clients: A Continuing Concern in the Helping Professions
- Special Education and the Charter: No Presumption in Favour of Integration
- Valuing Diversity and Acting Ethically
- What is Counselling: A Search for a Definition
- When Counsellors Cease to Practice
- Obtaining Consent From Children (Revisited)
- Some Breaches of Privacy and a Groundbreaking Decision
- A Much Quoted Decision of the Supreme Court of Canada Regarding Medical Records
- Professional Wills for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- Confidentiality and the Wigmore Criteria
- Confidentiality and the Wigmore Criteria – A Court Case
- What is Counselling? We have an answer in the following Definition of Counselling and its Scope of Practice.
- Three Recent Decisions of Interest to Regulators and Those who Aspire to Further Statutory Regulation of the Counselling and Psychotherapy Profession in Canada
- A Standard of Care and a Case of Malpractice
- Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Acts: Two Cases Involving Their Application to Students in Public Schools
- Allegations of Professional Misconduct Against a Counsellor (An Arbitration Case)
- Professional Regulation: Some Expert Advice
- Saying No to the Police when Noncompliance is the Appropriate Response: Some Personal Examples
- Can a Regulator Compel a Professional Registrant to Complete Continuing Professional Development Requirements? An Answer from the Supreme Court of Canada
- Counselling Records: Best Practices for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
- A Supreme Court of Canada Decision, and the Goudge Report on Complaints & Discipline
- Are a Psychologist’s Anonymized Peer Review Notes About a Client the Personal Information of That Client? An Answer From the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
- “…Names will Never Hurt you…” A Decision Front the Supreme Court of Canada
- E-mail Communications with Clients: A Brief Overview and Some Recommendations
- Typology and Dishonesty by Health Practitioners
- Can the Use of Social Media by Health Practitioners Result in Findings of Professional Misconduct
- Regulation and Title Protection An Update
- Intimate Partner Violence
- The Impairment of Counsellors and Other Health Professionals: Some Ethical Challenges
- The Obligation of Regulated Practitioners to Cooperate When an Ethical Complaint is Made Against Them and What Judges Recently Said About It
- The Impairment of Counsellors and Other Health Professionals: Some Ethical Challenges
- Let’s Give Informed Consent the Attention it Requires
- Going Back to Fundamentals: A Way Back!
- Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the COVID-19 Virtual World: Some Advice for Health Practitioners from Information and Privacy Commissioners and Others
- When can a client be denied access to their counselling record? An answer from an adjudicated complaint