Confidentiality, Assent, and Consent: Navigating the Ethical Terrain of Adolescent Medicine Out of Stock
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About the Seminar
Adolescent Medicine can be one of the most legally and
ethically challenging specialties in medicine.
Often, the law presents standards of consent and confidentiality that do
not completely align, which can give rise to conflict in treatment. When minors have the right to confidentiality
but not the ability to consent or to withhold information from their parents,
providers might struggle with how to engage the patient in a way that safeguard
them in the event that they disclose something they prefer to keep
confidential. Ethically, providers must
weigh their obligation to do no harm against the rights that parents hold to
offer informed consent to interventions to their child’s health. This can be especially complex when
adolescents are receiving care relating to substance use, mental health,
pregnancy or birth control, disordered eating, or other challenging adolescent
health topics. This presentation will explore ethical elements relating to the law around adolescent consent, assent, and confidentiality as well as ethical issues in the provision of care for adolescent patients.
About the Speaker
Dr. Alexandra Perry is a clinical ethicist with a decade of
experience in ethics consultation. She
is the Chief Executive Officer of Ethics Advisors, LLC which provides
healthcare ethics services to rural healthcare systems and community hospitals
as well as continuing ethics education.
She is also currently a faculty member in Leadership and Ethics with the
McDonough Center at Marietta College.
Dr. Perry is on the board of the Bioethics Network of Ohio and is the
author or editor of five books including Ethical Leadership: A Primer published
by Edward Elgar, which she recently co-edited with Dr. Robert McManus and Dr.
Stanley Ward. Currently, Dr. Perry is working on a book that examines leadership and ethics in end-of-life care in the American hospital.
This program qualifies for 1.0 MCLE credit hour, including up to 1.0 LEPR credit hour.
Note: When submitting your
compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you
completed this in 2023, please use this course code: 232091ADO.
Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2024, please use this course code: 241320ADO.
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