ABSTRACT
Psychologists have a duty to their clients to maintain confidentiality, and so all reports about clients should be managed with this as a central guiding principle. In all circumstances where psychologists wish to exchange information with other members of the client’s professional or social network, the client’s consent should be sought. Confidentiality may be broken only in circumstances where to maintain confidentiality would place the client or some other person in danger (British Psychological Society, 1995). Such circumstances are discussed in Chapter 16, which deals with self-harm, and Chapters 19, 20 and 21, in which child abuse is addressed.
