Ethical Standards When Working with Children and Adolescents

Authors of ethics literature have identified key rights for children during counseling or behavioral-health-treatment-and-therapy/index.html">therapy sessions. Children in therapy have the right:
1. To be informed about the evaluation process and reasons and results in understandable language.
2. To be informed about therapeutic interventions and rationale in understandable language.
3. To control release of information.
4. To be informed about confidentiality and its limitations.
5. To participate with the therapist in decision making and goal setting.
6. To be labeled the scapegoat in a dysfunctional family.

(Prout, H. T. & Brown, D. T., (1999). Counseling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents, NY:John Wiley & Sons.