American Psychiatric Association. Task Force on Confidentiality of Children's...Clinical Records and Committee on Confidentiality. Model law on confidentiality of health and social service records

Recovering the past: patient and family review of children's old mental health treatment records

The right of access to old mental health treatment records creates unique challenges when requests are from former child patients. One agency's experience suggests that review of these records represents an attempt to understand current problems and concerns by searching for supposedly objective observations from the past.