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Confidentiality In Child Psychiatry
Emilio Mordini*
* MD, Istituto Psicoanalitico per le Ricerche Sociali-Psychoanalytic Institute for Social Research 11, Passeggiata di Ripetta 00186 Rome, ITALY
Confidentiality in child psychiatric presents some peculiar features linked to child competence to consent and to control the information flow that concerns him/her self.
In particular this paper addresses two main questions: i) How could child's privacy be defined? ii) Who is included in child's private sphere?
The paper concludes pointing out some basic rules that should be anyway respected.Keywords: Confidentiality; Child Psychiatry; Medical EthicsT Klin J Med Ethics 2001, 9:7-12
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