Adolescent health risk behavior: when do pediatric psychologists break confidentiality?

Managed mental health care: attitudes and ethical beliefs of child and pediatric psychologists.

OBJECTIVE To examine child and pediatric psychologists' ethical beliefs and attitudes toward managed mental health care. METHODS In a survey mailed in spring 1997, 252 child and pediatric psychologists responded to three vignettes depicting ethical dilemmas related to working with managed mental health care (confidentiality, restriction of services, misdiagnosis). Data were collected about ps...

Breaching Confidentiality with Adolescent Clients: A Survey of Australian Psychologists about the Considerations that Influence Their Decisions

Breaching Confidentiality with Adolescent Clients: A Survey of Australian Psychologists about the Considerations that Influence Their Decisions Rony E. Duncan a b c , Ben J. Williams c & Ann Knowles c a Centre for Adolescent Health, Children's Bioethics Centre, Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Flemington Rd, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Austr...

Commentary: promoting health and well-being in pediatric primary care settings: using health and behavior codes at routine well-child visits.

Pediatric primary care provides an optimal setting for the practice of pediatric psychology and the use of health and behavior codes to capture this practice. Pediatric primary care settings provide continuous and comprehensive medical services that are readily accessible to the vast majority of children in the United States and their families (Centers for Disease Control, 2004). These settings...

Consent and confidentiality in adolescent health care.

Psychologists and the Transition From Pediatrics to Adult Health Care.

PURPOSE Guidelines for optimal transition call for multidisciplinary teams, including psychologists, to address youth and young adults' multifactorial needs. This study aimed to characterize psychologists' roles in and barriers to involvement in transition from pediatric to adult health care. METHODS Psychologists were invited via professional listservs to complete an online survey about prac...