I recently published a post sharing 10 Guidelines for Maintaining Confidentiality in the Digital Age. In many ways this is a blue ocean that is largely left unclarified in the codes of ethics for counselors/psychologists. The therapeutic alliance relies on unique circumstances with regard to confidentiality and disclosure of information to allow deeply meaningful conversations to occur and transformative processes to be enacted. Without a reasonable guarantee of safety, it is unethical for either of these processes to be attempted.
The suggestions included in that post were of value to consider as basic competencies with technology but only partially representative of the biggest threats I see to client confidentiality in school counseling.
Continue ReadingI’ve included internet safety as one part of a general “safety in our environments” unit for the past six years. During the first year, when our online use wasn’t nearly as pervasive as it is today and well before our CLC one-to-one program, it seemed a little foreign to both teachers and students alike to consider it a real space worthy of special consideration. At the same time, it felt perfectly natural to talk about safety while using public transit or safety in the home. Now the pendulum has swung the other way and people are highly concerned about safety online and not falling victim to “internet predators” who are assumed to be lurking behind every url. While we may fear the unknown, we also develop biases based on how quickly examples can be brought to mind (aka the availability heuristic). Fortunately, with internet predation the examples are highly publicized but few and far between.
Continue ReadingRT @shannonmmiller: 10 Tips for Teachers Using Evernote – Education Series from @Evernote Blogcast http://ow.ly/6S57k #COETAIL
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