Disclosure of HIV status to an infected child: Confidentiality, duty to warn, and ethical practice

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-57

  Corbin, James R ^a,b  

^a Clinical Social Work Institute   (United States)

^b MCDANIEL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JUVENILE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORS; PARENTS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 46449112159     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. This is a commentary on two articles, "Disclosure of HIV Status to an Infected Child: Medical, Psychological, Ethical, and Legal Perspectives in an Era of 'Super-Vertical' Transmission," by C.D. Mitchell, F.D. Armstrong, K.W. Goodman, and A. Cava, and "Ethical Issues Concerning Disclosures of HIV Diagnoses to Perinatally Infected Children and Adolescents," by R. Klitzman, S. Marhefka, C. Mellins, and Lori Wiener, both in this issue of JCE. Some material for this article is adapted from J. Corbin, "Confidentiality and Duty to Warn: Ethical and and Legal Implications for the Therapeutic Relationship," in New Social Worker 14, no. 4 (2007): 4-7.
2. The term therapeutic jurisprudence and related theory and practice are described in the following sources: D.B. Wexler, Therapeutic jurisprudence: The law as a therapeutic agent (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1990);
3. D.B. Wexler and B.J. Winick, Essays in therapeutic jurisprudence (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1991);
4. D.B. Wexler and B.J. Winick, "Introduction," in Law in a therapeutic key (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1997), xvii-xx;
5. and B.J. Winick, "The jurisprudence of therapeutic jurisprudence," Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law 3, no. 1 (1997): 184-206.
6. Ethical guidelines regarding confidentiality in the behavioral and allied health fields appear in the following sources: American Psychological Association - Committee on Ethical Guidelines for Forensic Psychologists, "Specialty guidelines for forensic psychologists," Law and Human Behavior 15 (1991): 655-65; American Psychological Association, "Guidelines for child custody evaluations in divorce proceedings," American Psychologist 49 (1994): 677-80; Clinical Social Work Association, Code of ethics (Arlington, Va.: Clinical Social Work Association and National Association of Social Workers, 1997); National Association of Social Workers, Code of ethics (Washington, B.C.: NASW Press, 1996); Omnibus AIDS Act (Fla. Stat. §381.004); American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric AIDS: Disclosure of Illness Status to Children and Adolescents with HIV Infection," Pediatrics 103 (1999), 164-6.
7. Clinical Social Work Association. Code of ethics, see note 3 above; National Association of Social Workers, Code of ethics, see note 3 above.
8. M. Levine and L. Wallach, Psychological problems, social issue, and law (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002).
9. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 108 Cal. Rptr. 878 (Ct. App. 1973); reversed and remanded, 13 Cal. 3d 177 (1974); modified, 17 Cal. 3d 425 (1976).
10. Ibid.
11. Levine and Wallach, Psychological problems, social issue, and law, see note 5 above.
12. T.J. Stein, The role of law in social work practice and administration (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 11.
13. Ibid., 105.
14. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 439-440 (1976).
15. F. Reamer, Social work malpractice and liability, 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 31.
16. Ibid.
17. D.T. Dickson, Confidentiality and Privacy in Social Work (New York: Free Press, 1988), 164.
18. Omnibus AIDS Act (Fla. Stat. §381.004).
19. Reamer, Social work malpractice and liability, see note 12 above, p. 41.