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Title: Managing confidentiality in rural welfare practice in Australia.
Author: Green, Rosemary
Mason, Robyn
Issue Date: 2002
Publication Title: Rural Social Work.
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Start Page: 34
End Page: 43
Description: In rural areas, managing confidentiality can be complex. There are three issues to be addressed for professional practice in rural areas: guarding privileged knowledge, use of client-related knowledge gained informally, and rural service delivery considerations, that protect client privacy and confidentiality. In 2000, a research project , sponsored by the University of Ballarat, explored these issues with rural social work and welfare practitioners in the Grampians Region of Victoria. Using a range of methods, including mailed questionnaires (23 respondents), forums (attendance approximately 40), and six individual, in-depth interviews, questions were asked relating to rural practice, and particularly professional and personal boundaries. Significant concern was expressed about managing dual and multiple relationships where information is received in a variety of ways. Other concerns highlighted the dilemmas confronting rural social welfare workers about community expectations and duty to warn, and protecting clients from gossip and innuendo.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11054/1277
Internal ID Number: 01259
Health Subject: CONFIDENTIALITY
RURAL SOCIAL WORK
RURAL SERVICE DELIVERY
PRIVILEGED KNOWLEDGE
Type: Journal Article
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