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Social Media Policy
This document outlines our office policies related to use of Social Media. Please read it to understand how we conduct ourselves on the Internet as mental health professionals and how you can expect us to respond to various interactions that may occur between us on the Internet.
If you have any questions about anything within this document, we encourage you to bring them up during the session. As new technology develops and the Internet changes, there may be times when we need to update this policy. If we do so, we will notify you in writing of any policy changes and make sure you have a copy of the updated policy.
Friending
We do not accept friend or contact requests from current or former patients on any social networking site (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). We believe that adding patients as friends or contacts on these sites can compromise your confidentiality and our respective privacy. It may also blur the boundaries of our therapeutic relationship. If you have questions about this, please bring them up when we meet and we can talk more about it.
Fanning
We keep a Facebook Page for our professional practice to allow people to share out blog posts and practice updates with other Facebook users. All of the information shared on this page is available on our website.
You are welcome to view our Facebook Page and read or share articles posted there, but we do not accept patients as Fans of this Page. We believe having patients as Facebook Fans creates a greater likelihood of compromised patient confidentiality and we feel it is best to be explicit to all who may view our list of Fans to know that they will not find patient names on that list. In addition, the American Medical Association’s Ethics Code prohibits our soliciting testimonials from patients. We feel that the term “Fan” comes too close to an implied request for a public endorsement of our practice.
Note that you should be able to subscribe to the page via RSS without becoming a Fan and without creating a visible, public link to my Page. You are more than welcome to do this.
Following
We publish a blog on our website and we post mental health news on Twitter. We have no expectation that you as a patient will want to follow our blog or Twitter stream. However, if you use an easily recognizable name on Twitter and we happen to notice that you have followed us there, we may briefly discuss it and its potential impact on our working relationship.
Our primary concern is your privacy. If you share this concern, there are more private ways to follow us on Twitter (such as using an RSS feed or a locked Twitter list), which would eliminate your having a public link to our content. You are welcome to use your own discretion in choosing whether to follow us.
Note that we will not follow you back. We only follow other health professionals on Twitter and we do not follow current or former patients on blogs or Twitter. Our reasoning is that we believe casual viewing of patients’ online content outside of the therapy hour can create confusion in regard to whether it is being done as a part of your treatment or to satisfy our personal curiosity. In addition, viewing your online activities without your consent and without our explicit arrangement towards a specific purpose could potentially have a negative influence on our working relationship. If there are things from your online life that you wish to share with us, please bring them into our sessions where we can view and explore them together, during the therapy hour.
Interacting
Please do not use SMS (mobile phone text messaging) or messaging on Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn to contact us. These sites are not secure and we may not read these messages in a timely fashion. Do not use Wall postings, @replies, or other means of engaging with us in public online if we have an already established patient/therapist relationship. Engaging with us this way could compromise your confidentiality. It may also create the possibility that these exchanges become a part of your legal medical record and will need to be documented and archived in your chart.
If you need to contact us between sessions, the best way to do so is by phone. Direct email at info@jazzpsychiatry.com is second best for quick, administrative issues such as changing appointment times. See the email section below for more information regarding email interactions.
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