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The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors' Breaches of Confidentiality.

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Xiao, Z; Rodriguez, MA; Fang, CM; Gao, J; Robins, C; Rosenthal, MZ
Published in: J Behav Health Serv Res
April 2019

The primary aim of the present study is to explore whether brief education can change Chinese adolescents' and parents' beliefs about when counselors would breach confidentiality. The two secondary aims are to examine whether the brief education (1) increases adolescents' willingness to share private information with their counselor and (2) decreases parents' expectations of the amount of information their child's counselor would divulge to them. Results showed that adolescents and parents who read a brief passage about the limitations of confidentiality were significantly less likely to believe counselors would breach confidentiality in situations where counselors reported they would not likely breach confidentiality. Regarding our secondary research aims, results indicate that education increases adolescents' willingness to share more sensitive information, such as about suicidality and drug use, but it does not change parents' expectations to have most of the information divulged to them by their child's counselor.

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Published In

J Behav Health Serv Res

DOI

EISSN

1556-3308

Publication Date

April 2019

Volume

46

Issue

2

Start / End Page

340 / 352

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Random Allocation
  • Psychiatry
  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Patient Acceptance of Health Care
  • Parents
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
 

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Xiao, Z., Rodriguez, M. A., Fang, C. M., Gao, J., Robins, C., & Rosenthal, M. Z. (2019). The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors' Breaches of Confidentiality. J Behav Health Serv Res, 46(2), 340–352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-018-9639-2
Xiao, Zheng, Marcus A. Rodriguez, Caitlin M. Fang, Jun Gao, Clive Robins, and M Zachary Rosenthal. “The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors' Breaches of Confidentiality.J Behav Health Serv Res 46, no. 2 (April 2019): 340–52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-018-9639-2.
Xiao Z, Rodriguez MA, Fang CM, Gao J, Robins C, Rosenthal MZ. The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors' Breaches of Confidentiality. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2019 Apr;46(2):340–52.
Xiao, Zheng, et al. “The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors' Breaches of Confidentiality.J Behav Health Serv Res, vol. 46, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 340–52. Pubmed, doi:10.1007/s11414-018-9639-2.
Xiao Z, Rodriguez MA, Fang CM, Gao J, Robins C, Rosenthal MZ. The Effect of Patient Education on Chinese Adolescent and Parental Beliefs About Counselors' Breaches of Confidentiality. J Behav Health Serv Res. 2019 Apr;46(2):340–352.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Behav Health Serv Res

DOI

EISSN

1556-3308

Publication Date

April 2019

Volume

46

Issue

2

Start / End Page

340 / 352

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Random Allocation
  • Psychiatry
  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Patient Acceptance of Health Care
  • Parents
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Middle Aged
  • Male