Confidentiality Guidelines
Confidentiality Guidelines
Confidentiality is the core for developing trust and promotion of therapeutic relationships. It also includes legal and ethical issues. We understand that you are very happy to care for students and care about their physical and mental development at this stage. However, regardless of whether you are referring or the student comes to the center at their own, the counseling center is obliged to strictly abide by the principle of confidentiality based on the importance of students' privacy. Therefore, the contents of the conversations will be handled and kept in a very confidential manner.
There are still exceptions to the principle of confidentiality in certain special circumstances.
We will fully inform the students during the first interview and they will be asked to sign the "Counseling Consent".
The following situations are not limited to the specification of the confidentiality principle:
1. Student reveals the intentions that will endanger other and his/her own life, liberty, property, and safety. For example, the student wants to commit suicide or kill someone else.
2. Student’s conditions need to be referred to medical institutions or assisted by psychological professionals after being assessed.
3. The student is infected with fatal and dangerous infectious diseases.
4. The student is involved or violates the requirements of the legal criminal case, such as domestic violence and child abuse.
5. Student volunteers to let third parties access the files.