Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (MindTap Course List)
Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337406291
Author: Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, Cindy Corey
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5, Problem 1LO
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To explain: The factor involved in the informed consent process.

Introduction: The rights of clients are paramount to provide counseling and practice legally and ethically. Most of the clients are not aware of their responsibilities and rights as partners in the therapeutic process.

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The informed consent process included the rights of the clients to be informed about their therapy, the purpose of the therapy, the potential risks, and the therapeutic procedures to be undergone, and to make their own decisions pertaining to it.

The informed consent process is otherwise called as shred decision-making process in which the professional practitioner helps the client to take informed decisions about participating in the therapeutic professional relationships by providing the necessary information to them. The informed consent process represents the excellent clinical care and it serves as an ethical and legal tool in treatment.

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