With expressed needs for privilege communication in education continuing to manifest themselves through the consideration and passage of legislation, this article reconsiders prevailing legal and ethical limits to confidentiality, with particular reference to the APGA Ethical Standards of 1961. (Author)

Explores the nature of privacy with regard to information about the individual and reviews governmental legislation affecting confidentiality in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, focusing particularly on the role of computers and the library. (FM)

Total Medical Record (TMR) is an automated, ambulatory medical record keeping system for patients at Duke University. (JD)

Identifies and summarizes key provisions of the privacy regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Suggests approaches a university can take to achieve compliance with those provisions, and discusses issues raised by the privacy regulations that are of particular relevance to the academic community. (EV)

Describes how student activism has prompted a number of colleges to begin phasing out their use of Social Security numbers in databases. (EV)

Praises Wegar's examination of the debate over sealed birth records and searching for birth parents to explore the meanings of kinship, family, and identity in contemporary culture. Criticizes the work's lack of incorporation of open adoption literature, overlooking of feminist works, and lack of strategies for changing negative attitudes toward…

Discusses potential liability concerns for public and private colleges and universities regarding public disclosure of faculty teaching evaluations. Guidelines for dealing with these records are given. (SK)

This monograph is designed to offer a pragmatic or applied focus to the ethical and legal dilemmas facing practitioners in the area of confidentiality and privileged communication. First a glossary of terms is presented. Next the historical perspective of confidentiality is discussed, focusing on from what the counselor's professional duty and…

Explains the new obligations imposed on school officials by federal legislation on student records reflected in this bill under the Education Amendments of 1974. (Author/JF)

This paper examines how the U.S. Privacy Protection Commission functioned. Examined are its basic authority, procedures and policies, operational plan, distinctive features, staffing, and results of recommendations. Created by an act of Congress in 1974, the Commission was authorized to examine all actual and potential invasions of privacy in the…

Laws of the 12 states which permit access to records of adoption proceedings without a court order are summarized. Statutes on access to adoption records for all 50 states are presented in tabular form and two recent court cases concerning adoption record access are described. (JMB)

For the announced purpose of protecting the privacy of individuals identified in information systems maintained by Federal agencies, Public Law 93-579 regulates the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination of personal information by the agencies. The act enables an individual to determine what records are being kept; to have access to them,…

Modern technological devices, along with advances in the behavioral sciences, can threaten the privacy of students. Technology that can reveal innermost thoughts and motives, or can change basic values and behaviors, must be used judiciously and only by qualified professionals under strictly controlled conditions. (Author)

Assessed conditions under which clinicians might consider breaking patient-therapist confidentiality, using vignettes of clinical situations. Social workers were more likely than their counterparts in psychiatry and psychology to report that they would breach confidences when confronting specified clinical situations, with older social workers…

Analysis of professional files kept on 20 severely educationally subnormal children (2-12 years old) revealed self-contradictory justifications for school placements; damaging social stereotyping; moral evaluations of families; professional procedures involving cicularity of thought; and attempts by professionals to protect themselves from the…