Informed Consent: A Case Study

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The meaning of informed consent according to Corey (2013) states: “Informed consent involves the right of clients to be informed about their therapy and to make autonomous decisions pertaining to it” (p. 40). Informed consent is a basic collaborative agreement between the client and their therapist that sets the guidelines of what is to be expected from both client and therapist. Informed consent details the possibilities of what the risks are in their therapy process, as well as the benefits. I think that one of the ways that the counselor used the informed consent was by letting Stan know it was a process, and that they would be working on it together. It was Stan’s belief that the counselor would tell him what to do, and that he would just

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