Edwin K. Yager, Ph.D.
Qualifications
Confidentiality
As a Psychologist, licensed in California, I am bound by several policies and regulations that define both the requirements and the limits of confidentiality.
Except for the limits prescribed by law, all information related to our work together is confidential, including the fact that we work together. Yet, the law does define certain limits and they are as follows:
I am required by law to break confidentiality if...
- There is knowledge or reasonable suspicion that child abuse or neglect has occurred and the victim is currently under 18 years of age.
- There is knowledge of physical abuse of an elder person.
- You threaten violence to a specific person.
- Ordered by a court to do so.
I am justified in breaking confidentiality if...
- You threaten suicide.
- You are dangerous to yourself or others, or you are unable to take care of yourself.
- You threaten the property of another.
- There is knowledge of infliction of mental suffering, fiduciary abuse, neglect, or abandonment of an elder person.