Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
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Learning Objectives:
- Understand the ethical considerations and best practice guidelines for balancing student confidentiality with safeguarding obligations
- Learn strategies for managing breaches of confidentiality and appropriately sharing sensitive information within educational settings
Chair
Victoria Marsden, Head of Student Services and Counsellor, Hobsonville Point Secondary School
Counselling and Confidentiality: Potential Ethical Issues Around Privacy v Protection
- Consider best practice guidelines when it comes to:
- Balancing confidentiality with safeguarding students
- Managing breaches of confidentiality and sensitive information sharing
Presented by Kate Lethbridge, Chief Advisor Employment, Te Whakaroputanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa New Zealand School Boards Association and Ann Bixley, National Governance Adviser, Te Whaka
Presenters
Victoria Marsden, Head of Student Services and Counsellor, Hobsonville Point Secondary School
Victoria has completed both a Masters in Counselling (2008) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision (Counselling) at Waikato University (2017). Victoria is the Head of Te Ara Manaaki Student Services at Hobsonville Point Secondary School, with a counselling role. She leads a team of counsellors and the school nursing staff. Victoria is a fully accredited member of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) and adheres to the principles of the NZAC Code of Ethics. Victoria works within a restorative, narrative and social constructionist framework and has published and been a reviewer for articles submitted for publication in peer reviewed academic journals both within New Zealand and overseas. Victoria has presented at conferences and delivered numerous workshops on both disordered eating and creating safe environments for our Rainbow rangatahi in schools.
Kate Lethbridge, Chief Advisor Employment, Te Whakaroputanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa New Zealand School Boards Association
Kate Lethbridge studied Law at Waikato in 1990s attaining her Masters. From then Kate worked in IRD, ACC, MBIE and has subsequently been at NZ School Trustees Association for 20 years, 16 as an adviser in Central North island then 4 as Chief Advisor Employment for whole of NZ. Kate has served on both school and proprietor Waikato Diocesan Boards for 10 years and holds the role as NZ president of NZ Australia Education Law association.
Ann Bixley, National Governance Adviser at Te Whakaroputanga Kaitiaki Kura o Aotearoa New Zealand School Boards Association
Ann has a MSc in Ecology (behavioural parasitology) and a PGdip teaching, secondary. She has taught science at both secondary and tertiary levels before falling into the world of governance. Ann has spent time on several boards across the education sector, from ECE, primary and secondary school boards.
