CONFIDENTIALITY

Confidentiality means that Eventide Recovery has a responsibility to safeguard information obtained during coaching. All identifying information about your assessment and treatment is kept confidential, except as mandated by law. You must sign a release of information before any information about you is given to anyone, except as mandated by law.

In certain situations, mental health professionals are required by law to reveal information obtained during sessions to other persons or agencies without your consent. In such situations, Eventide Recovery is not required to inform you of his actions. Please note the following exceptions to confidentiality:

• Confidentiality does not apply to cases of suspected abuse/neglect of children or the elderly.

• Confidentiality does not apply to cases of potential harm to self or others.

• A mental health professional may disclose confidential information in proceedings brought by a client against a professional.

• Confidentiality does not apply to cases involving criminal proceedings, except communications by a person voluntarily involved in a substance abuse program.

• Confidentiality may not apply in cases involving legal proceedings affecting the parent-child relationship.

• Confidentiality may not apply to cases involving a minor child. In such cases, the mental health professional may advise a parent, managing conservator or guardian of a minor, with or without minor’s consent, of the treatment needed by or given to the minor.