| The most common danger to patient confidentiality is the therapist him or herself. While this is not to minimize other dangers such as insurance companies and threats of subpoena court orders etc. it is still the therapist's lack of knowledge regarding the risks of confidentiality issues that poses the greatest danger to breaching a consumers privacy. Example: therapists use of the Internet. Over the course of the next few months Psychjourney will be doing a series on Unintentional Breaches of Patient Confidentiality. We would like to interview clinicians, educators, ethicists and lawyers with viewpoints from all perspectives. |