15 year old student

Pregnant

Wants an abortion

Parents wont let her have one

Refer Marion and her parents to therapy.

The family therapist can act on the

suicidal threat

What happens after ?

American Counseling Association (2005)

At initiation and throughout the counseling process, counselors

inform clients of the limitations of confidentiality and identify

foreseeable situations in which confidentiality

must be breached. (B.1.d.)

Clearly discuss the limits of confidentiality with minors.

Although minor clients have an ethical right to privacy

and confidentiality in the counseling relationship, the law

still favors the rights of parents over their children.

Marion’s Parents were also

teenage parents.

Her father will not allow an

abortion.

Abortion right or wrong ?

Corey, G. (2011). Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.