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Links
APA on Medical Records
http://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/hipaa.html
About Psychotherapy notes and their separate treatment under HIPAA.
...now health
plans cannot refuse to provide reimbursement if a patient does not agree to
release information covered under the psychotherapy notes provision
...Though
the privacy rule does afford patients the right to access and inspect their
health records, psychotherapy notes are treated differently: Patients do not
have the right to obtain a copy of these under HIPAA.
There is a
catch...
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more...
Documentation
An ABBP shares some recommendations
http://drednottingham.com/pdf/documentation.pdf
If risk
managed documentation both serves the client and protects the therapist,
then what should be included in the notes of therapists? Koocher and
Keith-Spiegel (1998) have suggested that a number of points should be
addressed and included in the content of clinical case records, and the
following are from their text Ethics in Psychology and include...
read more...
A great volume on Ethics
Koocher, G. P., & Keith-Spiegel, P. C. (1998). Ethics in psychology:
Professional standards and cases
(2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
Informed Consent info from a distinguished peer
Ken Pope - expanded web page of resources that may be helpful in thinking
through the process of informed consent, reviewing new professional standards,
improving policies and forms, etc.
The resources fall into 3 categories:
1) links to examples of varied informed consent forms from diverse sources;
2) excerpts of the informed consent requirements of professional
associations (with links to the original documents) including the
American Psychological Association; Canadian Psychological Association;
British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors; American Group
Psychotherapy Association; National Board for Certified Counselors;
American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy; British Association
for Counselling & Psychotherapy; American Psychoanalytic Association;
Canadian Counselling Association; American Association of Christian
Counselors; American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists &
Social Workers; American Mental Health Counselors Association;
Association for Specialists in Group Work; California Board of
Behavioral Sciences; European Federation of Psychologists' Associations;
Irish Association for Counseling & Therapy; National Association of
Social Workers; Canadian Psychiatric Association; Psychological Society
of Ireland; and
3) information, guidance, & statements about informed consent from
books, peer-reviewed articles, & research studies.
Ken Pope resources on Consent
Forms
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