To tell or not to tell: Breaching confidentiality with clients with HIV and AIDS

Ethics and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 365-381

  Hook, Misty K ^a,b   Cleveland, Jennifer L ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b District   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Confidentiality; HIV; Tarasoff

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALTRUISM; AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION; ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JURISPRUDENCE; PATIENT; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TARASOFF V. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION; AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; TARASOFF V. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ALTRUISM; BENEFICENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; COUNSELING; DISCLOSURE; DUTY TO WARN; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIETIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033286055     PISSN: 10508422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb0904_6     Document Type: Article

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