Confidentiality And Confidentiality

The similarity between confidentiality, privilege information, anonymity, and protected health information is small when comparing their differences. Although they all protect clients in some extent, they are distinct from one another regarding their boundaries. Confidentiality focuses on protecting information shared between a client and social worker. To keep confidentiality between a social worker and clients, the social worker must keep the information away from the media, and away from court unless they must report it under law. Privilege information is any information that cannot be disclose, and cannot be part of a testimony in court. Anonymity is when the clients’ identity is kept a secret. Protected health information is any information

Anonymous includes not knowing the face or name of the person. Keeping client’s confidentiality and their privilege information does not mean keeping their names from the public. Anonymity is most often used in social work research. For example, if a client participate in a research where they answer personal questions in a questionnaire, it’s the researcher’s job to make sure participates name not be known. Staying anonymous gives client the privilege to give more details and be more truthful about certain topics. Knowing they would never be identify, gives clients a sense of power to say whatever they want say, with no

Social workers have responsibilities to their clients to respect their privacy, and if the client cannot trust us in that, a rapport will never be form. Social workers must fight for the confidentiality of individuals, including families. Social workers are legally obligated to respect the privacy of their clients, and keep their information away from any third parties (NASW, 2008, p.7-8). Advocating for all those standards, would assure clients that social workers are really looking out for their well-being. When rights are taking away from clients, it’s our job as social worker to take up the necessary role and connect the clients with resources. For example, if a client’s health information has been violated by an insurance it’s our job to connect them to a better