I will maintain complete confidentiality regarding our sessions. This confidentiality is maintained at all times and applied to all records which I may make of our work together. However, there are exceptions to this and these are as follows:
1. Where you give consent for the confidence to be broken.
2. Where I am compelled to break confidence by a court of law.
3. Where there is a danger of you doing significant harm to another person or where I consider there is a greater responsibility to keep others safe. An example of this would be where I felt there was a risk of harm to someone else.
4. Where I feel that you are at significant risk of self harm or suicide. I would always try to discuss this with you prior to breaking confidentiality and seek your permission so to do.
5. Where you give me information which is required by law to be disclosed. For example I am required to make disclosures under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989 and also the Children’s Act 1989.
6. My work is supervised and for the purposes of supervision and training, records are kept of the sessions. In addition, if you have given consent the sessions will also be recorded. Those involved in supervision and training are bound by the same code of confidentiality as I am. For your information you can find in this section the tape consent form that I would ask you to sign.
7. Any records made will be retained for a maximum of six years subsequent to our last session and would normally be destroyed sooner when the purposes for which they are kept no longer exist.
8. Records I make will be maintained in a secure environment.