Confidentiality

While it is important that a student’s  conversations with a school counselor 
be kept confidential, confidentiality  does have its limitations. According
to the American School Counselor Association’s Ethical Standards for 
School Counselors, counselors must  “keep information confidential unless 
legal requirements demand that  confidential information be revealed
or a breach is required to prevent serious  and foreseeable harm to the student” 
(American School Counselor Association [ASCA], 2010).

1)      Verbal, Physical or Sexual Abuse

2)      Neglect

3)      A desire to harm him/herself

4)      A desire to harm someone else

5)      An unreported sexual assault

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