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Ethical counseling flows from informed consent. As a counseling professional, it is your job to make sure clients, students, and parents understand and consent to the rules and parameters of counseling—including the limits of confidentiality.

Informed consent is a clinical process that involves written documentation, an oral description, and an opportunity for questions and discussion. The process and documentation capture the professional background, the theoretical orientation(s), agency or school policies, emergency policies and procedures, and other matters specific to your setting, but in this text we only provide guidance for the portions related to potential suicidality.

If you are currently working with clients, students, or patients without a standard informed consent process, we highly recommend you develop one and use it. Both you and your clients are at risk without a clear informed consent document and process. There are three distinct but related components to informed consent. We cover these components here, with examples that may need fine-tuning depending on your setting.