University Student Initiatives Manual (USI)

Effective: 3/1/2000

Revised: 7/1/2009

USI 602–07: Informed Consent

Purpose

To describe the circumstances under which informed consent must be secured from ASU students to assist them in understanding limits to confidentiality and to facilitate coordination of care

Sources

Arizona Revised Statutes §§ 32–2061; 36–501

University policy

Policy

The informed consent process is designed to provide students with timely and understandable information regarding confidentiality and its limits, the nature of counseling services, rights of mental health clients, and methods for appealing unsatisfactory services. It is ethically and legally important that potential clients be aware of specific information before choosing to use mental health services. By providing the Informed Consent form and relevant information, ASU gives students opportunities to make informed decisions about their participation in the services provided. If a student chooses not to sign the Informed Consent form, the staff member providing service will inform the student about alternative on- and off-campus mental health services and will assist the student with accessing such services, and the meeting will be ended.

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Services not Requiring Informed Consent

ASU counseling centers provide a variety of psycho-educational and consultation services to the ASU community. Although the spirit of the informed consent process is integral to any professional service that counseling centers offer, the following services do not require use of the Informed Consent form:

1. provision of information about psychological services to campus audiences
2. provision of information about alternative on- and off-campus mental health and social services
3. consultation contact with individuals who are not clients
4. incident debriefing or other follow-up services provided for campus groups
5. consultation with ASU faculty and staff
6. outreach or educational programming
7. professional presentations

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8. career testing for career test interpretation groups.

See the counseling centers’ Web pages for detailed information specific to Counseling and Consultation at the Tempe campus, the Student Counseling Services at the West campus, the ASU Health Center at the Downtown Phoenix campus, and Student Counseling Services at the Polytechnic campus.

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