You Are Working with the Xenon Family

Multiple Choice

You are working with the Xenon family. While meeting privately with you, Calla Xenon says that she is planning to initiate divorce proceedings as soon as she graduates from her engineering program. She asks you not to tell her wife, Lydia, even though you believe that Lydia should know about her plans. In terms of your ethical obligations, you should:

A) Share the information with Lydia, because anything shared with one family member may be shared with other family members
B) Honor Calla's request to keep the information away from Lydia because each person has a right to 100% confidentiality of information shared individually with the social worker
C) Follow the agreement that you made with the family regarding whether you may share information from individual meetings with other family members
D) Tell Calla that she must share the information with Lydia immediately, or you will need to report her to the proper authorities