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With due consideration: Australian human service practitioners' understandings of confidentiality and disclosure obligations in regard to cases concerning gambling-related theft
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Patford, J and Tranent, P, With due consideration: Australian human service practitioners' understandings of confidentiality and disclosure obligations in regard to cases concerning gambling-related theft, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 11, (1) pp. 31-49. ISSN 1557-1874 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
DOI: doi:10.1007/s11469-012-9397-y
Abstract
Preserving confidentiality is problematic for human service practitioners if they
know that a client is seriously harming a third party or could do so in the future. The present
study concerned financial harm, as generated by gambling-related theft. Clients who disclose
gambling-related theft potentially create a dilemma for practitioners, who may need to
consider whether they have a professional duty to warn or in other ways protect third parties
who are identifiable but uninvolved in treatment. Study participants included specialist
gambling counsellors, practitioners working in agencies likely to attract clients with gambling
problems and students in training. Data was collected by means of an online survey.
Findings reveal how practitioners construe their profession’s legal and ethical obligations
when clients admit to gambling-related theft and when they personally believe that disclosure
is warranted. Areas of uncertainty and disagreement have import for employing
agencies, professional associations and tertiary training institutions.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Professional ethics . Ethical dilemmas . Confidentiality . Disclosure . |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Clinical and health psychology |
Research Field: | Health psychology |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Work and labour market |
Objective Field: | Professions and professionalisation |
UTAS Author: | Patford, J (Dr Janet Patford) |
UTAS Author: | Tranent, P (Mr Peter Tranent) |
ID Code: | 80770 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2012-11-12 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-07 |
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