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A starting point to adapt to your placement's policy and language, not a legal document. Read it with the client, in Urdu or their language, and answer their questions before they sign. Print with your browser's Print command; the site's menus are left off the paper.

Consent and confidentiality

Trainee: ____________________   Placement: ____________________   Date: ____________

Who you are seeing

  • Name and role of the trainee
  • That the trainee is supervised, and by whom

What will happen

  • What the sessions involve and roughly how many
  • Tests or questionnaires that may be used

What is kept

  • What is written down, where it is kept, and who can see it
  • That case discussions with the supervisor, and any report for the trainee's degree, leave out names and identifying details

When confidentiality has limits

  • A serious risk to the client's life or safety
  • A serious risk to someone else, including a child
  • When a court or the law requires it
  • In those cases, who would be told, and that the client would be told first where possible

Your choices

  • That the client can ask questions at any time
  • That they can stop at any time, and it will not affect other care at this service

Consent

  • I have read or been read this sheet, and my questions were answered
  • I agree to take part

Client (or parent or guardian): ______________________________   Date: ______________

Trainee: ______________________________   Date: ______________

Date: ______________________________   Date: ______________

Template from PsychologyOrbit (https://psychologyorbit.com/templates/consent-and-confidentiality). Free to print and adapt. No client names, phone numbers, CNIC or hospital numbers, or dates of birth.

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