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Confidentiality

1. Use of services and personal information shared by a client with his or her therapist is confidential in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), North Carolina Privileged Communication statutes, and professional ethical codes. No information is released to parties, outside The Counseling & Testing Center and those with a need to know within Student Health Services for purposes of care, without a client’s written permission. Under these provisions, University administrators, faculty, family members, law enforcement officials, potential employers, and others have no access to any of our clients’ records without the client’s written permission.
2. The exceptions to this rule of confidentiality are the following:
   1. If it is a therapist’s judgment that there is a substantial risk that a client will do physical harm to themselves in the near future, it is the therapist’s duty to take steps to protect the client’s safety.
   2. If it is a therapist’s judgment that there is a substantial risk that a client will do physical harm to an identifiable other person (or persons) in the near future, the therapist will take steps to protect the safety of the endangered person (or persons).
   3. If information is shared with a therapist indicating that a child or dependent adult is currently being abused, state law requires that the information is reported to the Department of Social Services serving the area where the child or dependent adult lives.
   4. If ordered to do so by a judge as part of judicial proceedings, The Counseling & Testing Center may release information contained in your counseling record.

Please let us know if you have questions about The Counseling & Testing Center's Confidentiality policy.

Student Health Services Privacy Notice: http://studenthealth.uncg.edu/about/policies/privacy.php

Page updated: 13-Aug-2009

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