New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 27 - COUNSELORS AND THERAPISTS
Part 18 - CODE OF ETHICS
Section 16.27.18.15 - CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Universal Citation: 16 NM Admin Code 16.27.18.15
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

Means information revealed by a client(s) or otherwise obtained by a counselor or therapist, within the therapeutic context. The information shall not be disclosed by the counselor or therapist without the informed written consent of the client(s). Confidential information may be disclosed without written consent when the client is considered a harm to self or others, when there is evidence of physical or emotional abuse of minors or frail elderly or by court order, see Subsection B of 16.27.18.17 NMAC. When the client is a corporation or organization, the confidential relationship is between the counselor or therapist and the corporation or organization and not between the counselor or therapist and the employee or individual. Information obtained from the employee by the counselor or therapist shall be available to the organization unless such information was obtained in a separate therapeutic context which is subject to confidentiality requirements.

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