The purpose of the assessment is to help ACC understand what to cover you for - i.e., what diagnosis or diagnoses are relevant for you at the current time. Diagnoses change over time and with treatment. The assessment looks at how things are for you currently.

 

The information you provide is confidential but is part of a report to ACC. You will have the opportunity, if you wish, to review the report (by yourself, with your therapist, with me, or with me and your therapist).

 

All information is kept strictly confidential. I will not be discussing you with your GP, for example, without your permission.

 

It is, however, compulsory for all clinical psychologists to receive supervision, and I do raise matters in a confidential way with my supervisor.

 

My reports are typically typed as well, and my typists and administrators are bound by confidentiality as I am, and they are treated as a legal extension of me. I am also using medical software during the assessment that allows me to transcribe the assessments.

 

( Registrations: I am registered with the NZ Board of Psychologists and am bound by registration guidelines as well as the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act. I am a member of the NZ College of Clinical Psychologists.)