Imagine that you are a probation officer for a patient in a substance-abuse treatment facility and you have a treatment session with a client. This patient is on parole, and has been since the time of admission to the facility. After reading the document titled “Information Sharing in Criminal Justice – Mental Health Collaborations: Working With HIPAA and Other Privacy Laws” from the module resources, address the following in your initial post:

1- During a discharge or treatment session, the client discloses that he used an illegal substance while on probation (and the probation indicates that use of drugs while on probation is a violation).
Discuss how you, as the probation officer, can or cannot share this information with the treatment team, and explain the reasons why or why not.

2- Identify at least one circumstance in which you, the probation officer, would need court approval to share PHI with the substance-abuse treatment team. Explain how this would be done.When responding to classmates, engage others about their ideas and how they may be different from your own.