Did anyone sign a written consent Release of Information (ROI) so their therapist can discuss your therapy progress to your husband, as in your spouse involve with your therapy journey.

[mende2010]

Does anyone else here has their husband involve with their therapy treatments and progress?

Yes, you can give formal written consent so your therapist can discuss your treatments and progress with your husband, so he can became involve in your treatment journey, if that what you want.

You sign the written form Release of Information (ROI) give consent to your therapist so she can talk to your husband regarding your progress, treatments, joint discussion about your whole therapy.

I have it, my therapist talk to my husband about my progress, he involved in my therapy.
He does go with me to my therapy session when time allow, but it because he is an Executive a big engineering corporate, he very busy with his work. So most time he couldn't go. So I signed the form and give consent that my therapist can talk to my husband.

I got diagnosed with severe anxiety, depression, and Intermittent Anger Explosive Disorder (IED).

And I wouldn't be able to do it alone without my husband support and involvement in my therapy treatment and progress. If you have mental illness and living with it, you see how scary it is to go through it alone. My husband is my anchor.

How about you, what conditions do you have (if you don't mind share) and do you think your spouse involve with your therapy would be more helfpul to you, or would you rather do it alone?

I have not heard of this. Do you contract with your therapist which aspects of your discussion and treatment will be shared? are you there when they speak?

As a therapist I wouldn’t work in this way. My relationship is with my client and I would work with them to be able to share what they wanted to with their partner. I find it weird that this even exists and it’s never something I have come across in my work. If someone needs “evidence” of therapy we can provide a letter stating “person x attended and engaged with therapy from this date to that date for y number of sessions” but that’s about as far as it goes.

Sorry, maybe English is my 3rd language so my post is not clear.

I know I can talk to my husband about my therapy session myself as I'm his wife. But the whole point is I want him to be involve with my therapy, and he is..

I gave my therapist consent for my therapist to share my therapy progress with my husband. I want my husband to know my progress in therapy, with him involve in my therapy it helps me alot in my healing journey.

And there is nothing illegal about it if there written consent giving therapist the consent to talk to your husband about your progress, if you the wife consent. It is only illegal if your therapist talk about you without your permission.

And ofcourse I was there, my husband go with me to my therapy session when his work allow. My therapist let him sit right there with me in my session. As that what she find helpful too.
And if he not able to come in person, Telehealth he is right there with me too, along with my therapist

I asked my therapist to let my husband be with me during my session, be it if it in person, or teleheatlh, or phone. And my therapist allow. I gave consent for him to be there.

It all seems a bit strange to me.

My psychiatrist has, on one occasion, asked my permission to contact my DH because he felt the risk was such that my DH needed to know. My DH subsequently came to a meeting with my psychiatrist. But that was not blanket consent to contact my DH and I would absolutely not give that.

I have Intermittent Anger Explosive Disorder (IED) and when my episodes flare up I went into full blown rage, and I physically harm my husband twice, almost took his life twice too.

He has the rights to know my therapy treatments progress, and the rights to ask my psychiatrist questions regarding my conditions, as it related him especially I almost took his life twice. He has the rights to know my conditions on the psychologist standpoint, and my treatments.

I told my psychiatrist I want him to be with me in all my sessions, and feel free to talk to him and answer all his questions regarding my mental illness. He deserve to be involve in my therapy. And he has the rights to be involve in, I mean his wife has mental illness.

And my psychiatrists deem it fit for him to be involve and has the rights to know too, the whole point of my treatments is not to hurt him ever again.

This seems really unethical is your husband abusive?

could this be reactive abuse?

My psychs have too and from a safeguarding point of view they can even without permission if there is a real threat I think. But I’ve not known therapists have such a deep entrenched relationship with the partner like the OP suggests.
I am v also interested @mende2010 if your therapist knows you hurt your DH and whether they have shared that higher up due to the safeguarding risk?

This doesn’t sound healthy at all. How are you able to be completely honest and open with your therapist if there is another party present? No matter how much you trust your DH and how much you’d share with him regardless, your condition is such that if something were to trigger you, he might be in danger.

I can’t see how this is at all ethical.

is your therapist registered with a professional body?

There are so many conflicts of interest in this. If you are having couples therapy you go together. That isn’t recommended when there is domestic abuse as there is here. If you are not having couples therapy the only reason to discuss would be in the event someone was in danger, in which case the disclosure is to police.
there’s a couple of possibilities here OP and I can’t fathom enough from your posts to even guess which is accurate. Either you are abusive towards your husband and seeking to convince him this is a normal way of dealing with things. Or he is convincing you that you are to cover his own tracks. Only you know which.

I do not know anywhere in my posts that came across that my husband is abusive when I clearly said I am the on with mental illness and I abused him.

I go to therapy to get treatments to control my Anger disorder so I won't physically abuse him again when my Anger episolds flare up.

I was the one that ask my therapist to have my husband sit with me during my sessions, and she allow. And I give her consent to talk to my husband about my therapy progress.

I want him to hear it from the professional her on my mental illness, not just from my mouth of the mental illness person.

And my therapist is license and register.

Sorry, I'm the one that asked my therapist to to include my husband, that’s not a breach of confidentiality. When I'm the on that ask my therapist to include my husband.
It only a breach of confidentially if my therapist do it without my permission.

And I did tell my therapist in the past, in the past of my IED episolds flare up I physically harm my husband, leave 2 scars on his body.

Keyword, the past. There nothing the laws can do about past abuse that already happened many years ago.

Current abuse yes therapy can do something about it, but past abuse many years ago that the past.

The whole point of me going to therapist os how to control my Anger disorder so my husband won't get hurt again when my episodes flare up., Without him there I will not be able to open up anything with the therapist. I need my husband there, he is the key to me heal in this journey,

And I told my therapist that, if she not let my husband be with me during my sessions then I will go find another therapists.

She allows, she ask me to sign the consent form. And I did, I want and consent.

My therapist has no relationship with my husband, other than let him join me in my therapy session, and answer his questions about my treatments and progress.

Im sorry, and I only ask because it’s quite a common dv tactic. Sneakily wind your partner to snapping point, then say they are the abusive one, make them think they are the problem etc. I’m sorry you’re going through this but I would always ask to check you are safe.
I hope you get the help you need but I would worry about sharing so much with your partner. You need a safe space to share

As a therapist neither would I, far too many conflicts of interest and the potential for coercion is too great. If a client wanted that I’d need to refer them to someone else.

Then I’m not sure what you’re seeking OP because any mention of this not being ethical you revert back to consent. Two things can be true at once. You can consent to all this being shared and it still be unethical.

I suppose if you are happy with it then that’s fair enough. I wouldn’t want this if I was in therapy.

You sound abusive to me. Your h has the right to decide whether he wants to be in on sessions.

He is not the ‘key’ to you healing. You are. Don’t dump this responsibility on him. 🙄

If I were him, I would have dumped you when you harmed me. And I would have gone to the police.

Same poster that made the AI thread IED earlier today?

What I am looking for in this thread is what I asked my OP question, I asked does anyone here sign the form of Release of Information (ROI) consent, so their spouse would know about theri therapy progress. It is you that sign it meaning you consent it.

If you answer No, then that is your rights.But what if I want to sign it? I have my rights.

It is not unethical when that form is signed by me the patient, I asked for my information to be release to my the man that is my husband.

btw Release of Information (ROI) in therapy is a LEGAL form, Google it if you not know what it that.

I do not believe in between a spouse and a spouse should have any secret, he is my anchor, without him I wouldn't even want to go to therapy. I go to therapy because of him, because I want to get better for him.

He has the rights to know about my mental illness, he the one that sleep with me in same bed, share a life with me, and will help me through my mental illness recovering journey.

To each of its own I guess, you do whatever comfortable for you.

And my husband wants to be in my therapy session. He wants to help me with my mental illness journey recovering.

Fair enough. Different people heal differently.

My husband want to be in my session, I also want him to be in my session, so it a mutual decision between us.

I was the abusive one in this marriage. I told my therapist that I want my husband together with me in my sessions, or else I don't feel comfortable to open up and talk. And my therapist allow. She asked me to sign the Cosent form first, and I did sign. So it legal by the laws as the form is signed consent by me.

I have therapy. My therapist has once said that if there were a therapeutic reason for DH to be present at a session then that would be fine but I haven’t wanted that to happen. I share a lot of things with DH about my therapy but it is good for me to have some things that I don’t share.