Client or patient? Contrasts between medical and counselling models of confidentiality

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-181

  Jenkins, Peter ^a,b  

^a Sch Social Wk Educ Counselling   (United Kingdom)

^b Stockport Coll Further Higher Educ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THERAPY;

EID: 0033027547     PISSN: 09515070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515079908254087     Document Type: Article

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