Essays on Confidentiality

In the case of a patient, Anne, not wanting to disclose her status as HIV positive to her partner, Darcy is bound to patient confidentiality as a health professional, and thus legally cannot inform Anne’s partner without her consent. Patient confidentiality is considered “one of…

The Need for Confidentiality I will argue that Kant’s categorical imperative theory is false because it doesn’t account for cases where counselors should break client confidentiality, such as in a case where self-harm is involved. I will explain why client confidentiality cannot be broken when…

Abstract This paper will address various issues in criminal justice and criminology research. It will address the importance of ethics and confidentiality to research and the legal issues that can arise when one conducts such research such as revealing one’s work to authorities in a…