Webinar 3: Privacy and informed consent (in parents' conflicts)

Content of the webinar

Informed consent has an instrumental value: it aims to promote the greatest possible trust between the psychologist and the client. From this perspective, age should not be the fundamental reference for the psychologist’s decision to assist a child or adolescent. Informed consent requires maturity. In that way a child/adolescent will have a more limited capacity to express their will and to understand its possible implications. In this perspective, parents should provide the informed consent and the child/adolescent should be involved in the whole process. But, what to do when parents are not agreeing about the best interest of their child or adolescent? This is an important problem, which is in the base of a lot of complaints against psychologists. The idea of this webinar is to discuss these questions about informed consent and children privacy.

About the speaker

Assoc. prof. Miguel Ricou has a PhD in Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology of Coimbra University. Master in Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine of Porto University. Clinical Psychologist.

President of Specialty Board of Clinical and Health Psychology of the Portuguese Order of Psychologists 

Member of the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences of Portugal

Member of the National Council of Health of Portugal

Member of the National Council of Mental Health of Portugal

Member of the Board of Ethics of EFPA – Co-convenor and Portuguese Representative Ethics Expert H2020 Program EU – Directorate-general for research & innovation

Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine of Oporto University.

Assistant Professor of Psychopathology, Portucalense University.

Associated Member of CINTESIS@RISE – Center for Health Technology and Services Research

Resources

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