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Music therapy delivered to the young children on the neonatal ward features an "ocean disk" instrument. Miranda Bray says the ...
A number of companies, like Upheal, Blueprint, and Heidi Health, have begun offering AI-powered tools designed to make therapists more efficient at documenting sessions and completing administrative ...
Stunned. Ambushed. Traumatized. These were the words that Jeffrey, 76, used to describe how he felt when he stumbled upon his therapist’s notes after logging into an online patient portal in June.
Calling the use of counselling notes a violation, the submission also says: “We assert that this practice is discriminatory and a breach of women’s rights to access health and justice.
While an outright ban on the disclosure of counselling notes was originally mooted in the 2025 Programme for Government, this is unlikely to be workable due to concern for defendants’ fair trial ...
Dr Burgin said it’s alarming that while Ms Lucas was willing to go to jail to protect a survivor’s counselling notes, 1800 RESPECT simply handed them over, without contacting Ms Lane to seek ...
In the end, Ms Grace's notes were not used by the defence team in the trial, but they were read by the defence team. Ms Grace has now called on the practise of disclosing counselling records to end.
A complainant’s counselling notes will be disclosed in sexual assault trials only if the court decides they are relevant, under plans for changes to the law approved by the Cabinet.
The use of therapy notes in a legal setting is harmful because not only is it an invasion of the client’s privacy, but it leaves those notes open to interpretation by unqualified people who have ...
In her therapy notes, she writes in detail about Quintana’s multiple hospitalizations and trips to rehab, the disconcerting phone calls when Quintana slurred and ranted, and how Didion’s work ...
PROTECT SURVIVORS ‘Criminal’ that abusers can use victim’s counselling notes, says rape survivor Hazel Behan amid Dail bid to end practice ...
A COMMITMENT BY the previous government to ban outright the use of rape survivors’ counselling notes as evidence in trials is likely to be rolled back, The Journal understands. Survivors of ...