Principal Nevena Brown is participating in LawSense’s 2021 Law for School Counsellors series, ‘Law for School Counsellors: Balancing Your Obligations and Rights in Supporting Students and Mitigating Your Risk in the School’, and will be presenting the following topic:
Understanding, Navigating and Documenting Informed Consent from Students and Parents, Including Where There is Family Separation
The webinar will cover:
- Examining the key elements of informed consent: what level of information is required to make it
“informed”? - How is age considered in assessing consent in different circumstances?
- How does age affect considerations of consent where the student is between 12 and 14?
- Understanding when verbal versus written consent is adequate
- When is a “blanket” or generic consent adequate?
- Evaluating oral versus written and ‘implied’ consent
- Addressing challenges with consent:
- what are your obligations to the student where the parent does not consent to counselling, but
you believe the student needs it? - what if the parents’ consent to counselling, but the student does not?
- what are your options where only one parent consents, but the other objects to counselling and
the child is under 12? - can a parent get access to records where a child does not consent?
- independent students – to what extent can you rely on their consent?
- exploring circumstances where it can be claimed consent was obtained because of undue pressure or duress
- obtaining specific consent regarding mental health and other assessments of the student
- what are your obligations to the student where the parent does not consent to counselling, but
- Parent separation and consent:
- how is consent affected by family law proceedings?
- do both parents need to consent where the parents are separated?
- understanding how agreements between parents or Court orders affect consent requirements
- Best practice in documenting consent and examples of best practice consent forms
Nevena’s presentation is at 12:25pm on Thursday 4th November 2021. For more information click here.
