How does confidentiality relate to informed consent, and what are some legal exceptions to confidentiality?

2 discussion posts

Part 1

Define informed consent based on what you have learned from your readings. Think about your chosen field in psychology (school psychology). How do professionals in your field establish informed consent documents or agreements with those they serve?

How does confidentiality relate to informed consent, and what are some legal exceptions to confidentiality? In your chosen field, identify an example of an ethical dilemma that could arise from issues of confidentiality.

Part 2

This discussion assignment has two components. First, choose an article from the popular news media (i.e., an article that might appear on a website meant for the general public, NOT a peer-reviewed academic article) that misinterprets correlation as causation.

Why is the author’s interpretation of the topic a mistake? For this portion of the assignment, you may choose an article featured on the Correlation or Causation? website, but you do not have to.

For the second portion of this assignment, choose one of the articles that you have read for your final project.

Describe how the results from one of the articles (preferably a correlation) could be misinterpreted and misconstrued by a news source. What might the misleading headline be, and why would it be misleading?

http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/correlation_or_causation.htm

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