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Confidentiality with Minors: The Need for Policy To Promote and Protect.
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Stone, Carolyn; Isaacs, Madelyn L. – Journal of Educational Research, 2003
Investigated school counselors' attitudes toward breaching confidentiality before and after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. Surveys of demographically similar counselors indicated that the Columbine shootings affected counselors' predictions about their attitudes and behavior regarding confidentiality. Counselors were more reluctant to…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Disclosure, Elementary Secondary Education, School Counselors
Involving Students in Violence Prevention: Anonymous Reporting and the Need to Promote and Protect Confidences
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Stone, Carolyn; Isaacs, Madelyn L. – NASSP Bulletin, 2002
Researchers queried school counselors throughout the United States 2 months prior to and 2 months following the April 1999 Columbine (CO) High School shootings. The counselors were asked whether or not they would breach a student's confidentiality in 26 specific scenarios. The "before" and "after" groups were demographically similar but differed…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Focus Groups, Confidentiality
Confidentiality with Minors: Mental Health Counselors' Attitudes toward Breaching or Preserving Confidentiality.
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Isaacs, Madelyn L.; Stone, Carolyn – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2001
Describes the results of research that explored how mental health counselors consider the confidentiality of minors and conditions under which they would breach it. Results indicate that mental health counselors are protective of their minor clients' confidentiality rights with variation based on degree of seriousness and age of the client.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Confidentiality
The Duty to Warn and Protect: Tarasoff and the Elementary School Counselor.
Isaacs, Madelyn L. – Elementary School Guidance & Counseling, 1997
Helps school counselors identify those situations in which the Tarasoff court decision affects them and their students -- the decision requires psychotherapists to warn potential third party victims threatened by their patients. Considers the case history; the special role of school counselors; children, confidentiality, and competence; ethical…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Confidentiality, Court Litigation, Disclosure