First of all, the consultant has the original choice of confidentiality. If the leak can be solved through legal channels, don't worry.
Before consulting, the consultant will explain the confidentiality principle to you.
Including the content of your help and the process of contacting you during the consultation. Without your consent, the counselor can't ask personal privacy that has nothing to do with counseling.
Of course, there are exceptions to confidentiality. Those who ask for help are willing to disclose confidential contents or related contents that the judicial organs need consultants to provide. In this case, the counselor should keep the degree of disclosure to a minimum.
The principle of confidentiality reflects the counselor's respect for the helper, and also reflects the counselor's integrity, which avoids the harm to the helper and is also conducive to establishing a good consulting relationship.
Secondly, the consultant's consultation time is clearly marked.
The fees charged by psychological counseling institutions are based on time. Generally, the time is about 50 to 60 minutes. Of course, special circumstances may prolong the time, and if hypnosis is carried out, the time may be longer.
This charging standard is clearly marked in the consultation center. Of course, there is a difference between the prices of famous teachers and ordinary consultants. The key is your choice.
As for the specific therapeutic effect, because each counselor has his own professional field, I suggest choosing a counselor who is more professional in this field and related to the content you seek help from. In other words, choosing the right one rather than the expensive one is highly related to the content you ask for help.
In short, formal psychological counseling institutions and counselors are highly professional, so there is no need to worry about leaks and extortion. Of course, many people who have not experienced psychological counseling are very worried about these problems and understand your feelings.
I hope the above content will help you!
I am Zuo Shu, a psychology teacher who is engaged in psychology and mental health education. Let me answer your question.
I will answer your question from three aspects.
First, as a psychological counseling professional, I understand how you feel. Judging from your question, it shows that you don't understand psychological counseling, professional norms of psychological counseling and professional ethics of psychological counselors. This also shows that, as psychological counselors, we do not publicize our work enough and popularize the common sense of psychological counseling to the public.
Second, when doing psychological counseling, I am worried that the psychological counselor (psychologist) will leak. I can tell you clearly that psychological counseling has the principle of confidentiality, which is the professional ethics of psychological counseling that psychological counseling practitioners must abide by; When you go to counseling for the first time, the counselor will explain the principle of confidentiality to you (visitors), which is not only the professional ethics requirement of counseling, but also the nature of counseling itself. However, there are exceptions to confidentiality. For example, visitors may cause harm or death threats to themselves or others, and the judicial authorities require psychological counselors to provide information about visitors. When a visitor suffers from a life-threatening infectious disease, the psychological counselor can disclose the confidential information of the visitor to others.
Third, don't worry that the counselor will extort money after the counseling. Psychological counselors must abide by the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China, the Law on the Protection of Minors in People's Republic of China (PRC), the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests in People's Republic of China (PRC), the Law on the Protection of Consumers' Rights and Interests in People's Republic of China (PRC), the Law on Mental Health in People's Republic of China (PRC) and other relevant national laws and regulations related to psychological counseling. It is necessary for the counselor to inform both the visitor and the counselor of their responsibilities, rights and obligations, as well as the charging standards when the visitor conducts psychological counseling for the first time. The professional behavior of psychological counselors is bound by law.
Of course, there are black sheep in any industry. If you meet some psychological counselors who don't abide by the professional ethics of psychological counseling and national laws, you can complain to the local market supervision and management department, the consumer rights protection association and the local psychological counseling industry organization, so that they can safeguard your legitimate rights and interests.
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Worry is understandable, although there are constraints of consulting agreement and consulting ethics, it cannot guarantee 100% safety.
You can also discuss this issue openly with the psychologist and express your concerns as a consultation topic.
In addition, there are several ways to refer to:
1, select remote consultation.
2. Choose a counselor with a legal license.
3. I feel very risky and can change my name temporarily.
4, telephone consultation, not meeting (although the effect is weak, but talking is better than nothing)
Frankly speaking, the development of domestic psychological counseling industry is not standardized at present, and your concern is justified. Therefore, I have the following suggestions.
First, find a long-established psychological counselor or institution.
Because the establishment of a brand is not a matter of one or two days, if consultants and institutions want to do anything illegal, they will definitely consider their own illegal costs, that is to say, people and institutions with a relatively large reputation and a long time are relatively reliable.
Second, sign a confidentiality agreement when necessary.
Sign the agreement in black and white, and keep it confidential from form to content.
The third and most important point is to look at people.
This may be the most complicated and difficult point to grasp, but it is really the most important point. What you want to see is a psychiatrist. If you can't trust him, you can't guarantee the curative effect in the first place, so you need to find someone who can gain your trust in all aspects. If you have the slightest doubt, or some doubts, you should make sure that you are not distracted to receive treatment.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
The minimum moral bottom line for a truly qualified counselor is to keep secrets for the counselor. If you can't do this, you are not qualified to be a counselor. But before consulting, you really need to check the consultant's resume to see the authority of its platform. If they are found to have leaked secrets or even been blackmailed, they will not hesitate to report the case to the public security organs and punish those responsible according to law.
Hello, first of all, there is a difference between a psychologist and a counselor. Psychologists must have a medical background. Psychologists have the right to prescribe, but counselors don't. Secondly, psychologists do psychotherapy for some mental symptoms, which can assist drug treatment, while psychological counselors conduct psychological counseling for emotions, cognition and behavior caused by psychological problems.
For the problem you want to solve, whether you seek the help of a psychologist or a counselor, you can rest assured, no matter which side.
First of all, psychological counseling has strict ethical requirements and confidentiality principles. All your information is confidential, and the counselor will bear the relevant legal responsibility for revealing secrets. Secondly, psychological counselors have professional psychological qualifications, adhere to materialism and dialectical professionalism, and no one wants to ruin their future.
In addition, as a doctor who saves lives, he has professional ethics, which is a professional requirement!
So, you don't have to worry, the chance of this happening is very small!
Before consultation, a consultation agreement is usually signed. There will be confidentiality clauses in the negotiation agreement. Your privacy is protected by law. If the consultant leaks at will, you can take legal measures to protect your rights.
To find a consultant, you need to find a professional. At present, the best registered psychologist in China is the Chinese Psychological Association. They have very strict ethical settings. If they have ethical problems, they can complain to the Ethics Committee of the Psychological Association, which will be more secure.
Rest assured, regular consultants have the obligation to keep secrets for their guests, otherwise they will break the law and bear the consequences!
Hello, as a psychological teacher engaged in psychology and mental health education, I am also the founder of psychological counseling institutions. I suggest that you must choose consultants through formal channels, and be wary of those consultants who consult for hours at a time, or promise results, or make you feel uneasy. Although this is a very small number of practitioners.
Your worry is also the worry of some friends who don't understand the psychological counseling industry. This is normal. Each of us has a lot of privacy. It is definitely necessary to expose these privacy in the process of psychological counseling, which will make people feel extremely insecure and understand your mood. I don't understand the professional ethics of psychological counselors. This also shows that as psychological counselors, we don't publicize our work enough, and we need to popularize more psychological knowledge.
Psychological counselors must abide by relevant national laws and regulations related to psychological counseling, such as the Consumer Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Mental Health Law of People's Republic of China (PRC). At the same time, psychological counselors need to follow professional ethics, which is a higher requirement for the consulting industry. The professional behavior of psychological counselors is bound by law and ethics.
I am worried that the psychological counselor will extort money after psychological counseling. This situation is also quite special and basically will not happen. Psychological counseling is clearly priced. It is illegal for a consultant to charge fees beyond the industry norms, or to disclose the privacy of visitors, or to blackmail visitors by using the information exposed during the consultation process. It can be solved through legal channels, and minor cases can be solved through ethical arbitration.
Like other industries, there will always be some people who don't abide by ethical laws. If you encounter it in psychological counseling, please hold individual psychological counselors accountable for not abiding by the professional ethics of psychological counseling and national laws. You can complain to the local market supervision and management department, consumer rights protection association and local psychological counseling industry organization, so that they can safeguard your legitimate rights and interests.
Don't worry, professional rules must be kept secret from visitors. If you need to teach and discuss the presented cases, you must get the consent of the visitors in advance!