Guide to Ethics, Confidentiality & Boundaries in Working with Children & Adolescents
Working with children and adolescents as mental health professionals is both rewarding and uniquely challenging. Unlike adult clients, young people bring a host of considerations around consent, privacy, family dynamics, and developmental maturity. Due to this, many mental health professionals face challenges around ethics and confidentiality, which are both complex and critical. When a child says, “Don’t tell my parents,” what do you do? The answer isn’t always simple, and that’s precisely where Dr. Kathryn S. Krase steps in.
