Legislative Framework for Practice
Treatment plan and consent
At the start of therapy, the therapist presents a treatment plan which is signed by the client. This contains the therapist's professional offer on the client's request for help. The plan forms the starting point of therapy and guides the treatment. The treatment plan is regularly evaluated and adjusted where necessary.
Notes Legal framework
The therapist acts in line with the Medical Treatment Agreement Act (WGBO) and the Personal Data Protection Act (WBP).
The WGBO gives the client a number of rights in relation to the therapist such as the right to information, consent and confidentiality of his data. Confidentiality means that the therapist is not allowed to provide information about the client to other people without permission. The WGBO also gives the client a number of obligations, such as the duty to provide information, to cooperate and to pay the therapist for treatment.
The WBP - also known as the Privacy Act - states that the therapist must handle client data with care. The therapist may not collect more data than is necessary for the purpose for which the data was collected. He must also take the necessary security measures to ensure that the data are not lost or fall into the wrong hands, such as a password, backup, secure connection (technology) but also authorisation and findability (organisation).
The WBP gives the therapist a duty of information. He must inform the client about the purpose for which he records the data, what he does with the data, who else uses the data and to whom he provides the data. This can be done verbally during the intake or via a text on the website.
Information on complaint possibilities
The therapist informs the client about the options available for filing a complaint. The client can address the complaints committee of the professional association of which the therapist is a member. This complaints committee investigates the complaint and makes a (non-binding) decision on this basis.