Sharing Information with Family / Whanau

This course is built on ADHB's core value of "respect". Information about mental health service users that is shared or withheld respectfully promotes safe and effective communication.

This course provides a framework to help mental health clinicians balance conflicting interests in sharing clinical or personal information between service users and their significant others. It offers a path to support service users to share information and to support families with sometimes very limited information.

The course will discuss a model for engaging families and service users and related legal/ethical issues, current research on sharing clinical information, and some specific communication skills to manage difficult or sensitive situations.