The situation involves a group leader who does discuss the legal aspects of confidentiality, the reasons for it, and the impact on the group of lack of confidentiality; she summarizes member responsibility in keeping confidentiality by saying "Anything that happens here, stays here." In her presentation of the importance of confidentiality in the group, the leader fails to point out how confidentiality can be violated in subtle ways and how confidences are often divulged without malice.

1. How would you handle a group member who violates confidentiality?
2. How might you deal with the matter of confidentiality if you were leading a group with children or adolescents and a parent wanted to know of the progress of his or her son or daughter? What might you tell the parent? What do you think you would not tell the parent?