Question

Dr. Jamison has joined a group practice of psychologists who have asked her to develop her biography to post with her picture on their social media page. They have asked Dr. Jamison to reach out to her former clients from her last employer to solicit testimonials. Dr. Jamison is very concerned about this request. She was unaware the group practice had a social media page. When she visits the page, she sees several client testimonials for other psychologists in practice, some of which appear to reveal identifying information about the clients.

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

There is no question here. It is just a statement. So that being the case, what we comment on is the following.

Reading the text, we assume that this is about an ethical issue.

Dr. Jamison was asked for some testimonials but psychologists know that everything shared by clients is confidential and cannot be shared. So when Dr. Jamison so the testimonials on the social media web pages, she was concerned about this ethical issue.

So here is a problem with confidentiality. Confronted with these ethical issues, Dr. Jamison should report this situation to the American Psychology Association.

Before this scenario, one could recommend the group of psychologists to take seriously the issue of confidentiality because clients tell their stories and share their problems, knowing that there is an ethics code that psychologists must honor all the time.