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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP.  I think therapists should be ethically bound to tell a spouse their health is at risk.  If they know their client us having unprotected sex and still screwing the spouse I think that should be required disclosure. I sure as hell wish somebody had told me.[/quote]

The therapist’s ethical obligation is to maintain client confidentiality.  Who would trust a therapist if they knew the therapist could randomly decide they should share the patient’s confidences with others the therapist felt had a significant interest in the information?[/quote]

The client gave wife disclosure, signed agreements for records/discussions to be released.  Therapist is not betraying patient-client confidentiality.  The client knows and asked therapist to do the contact so they don’t have any contact with the AP themselves.  Nobody in this situation owes the AP any confidentiality.  No violations are being made.  This is often done in MC.  [/quote]

No, it isn’t.  Leaving aside client confidentiality issues, no ethical therapist would do this if for no other reason than because they don’t know enough about the AP, their spouse, the marriage, etc., to know whether this is a prudent course.  For all the therapist knows, the AP is married to an abuser who will actually kill the AP upon learning of the affair.  No rational therapist is going to risk that for moral and legal reasons.[/quote]

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