Parental Rights in Treatment or Therapy
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font face="Comic Sans MS" font color="336699">Authors of ethics literature have identified parental rights in
behavioral-health-treatment-and-therapy/index.html">therapy or treatment of their
children. These include the parentsī right:
1. To have a legal responsibility to provide for their childīs welfare.
2. To access information that pertains to their childīs welfare.
3. To seek therapy and/or treatment services for their child.
4. To be involved in therapeutic decision making and goal setting for their child -- right to give permission for treatments.
5. To release confidential information concerning their child.
(Prout, H. T. & Brown, D. T., (1999).
Counseling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents, NY:John Wiley & Sons.
