All services that are using media of any kind like computer, telephone, radio, or television should be made aware of the risks that are associated with those services. Always make sure that you get informed consent before audiotaping or video tapping clients. An idea is to get a third party to observe while doing any type of taping (National Association of Social Work NASW14). .
During World War II, German doctors in Nazi German were doing awful research on prisoners in concentration camps. The patients were not asked if they wanted to participate in the research and typically they died from the doctor experimenting on them. When the war was over, the doctors were taken to trail at the Nuremburg Trail for what they had done to these people. The Nuremburg Code was developed in 1948. This was one of the first cases that addressed medical research. A patient must have voluntary consent and couldn't be forced to participate without them understanding the risk that can take place and them being acceptable to the person. .
The concept of informed consent started in medicine and healthcare, it became very important in social work as well. As social workers began to serve children, older adults, people with mental illness, and physical challenges, nursing home residents and hospital patients, or prison inmates. The professionals must make sure that they are following all the different guidelines and requirements regarding minors' receiving any type of treatment like mental health services or contraception with parental notification (Reamer 03'). No matter what setting that you are working with as a professional you have to make sure that you are knowledgeable about all of the informed consent and patient's right to agree or to refuse treatment.
Either way a patient has to be able to trust and communicate with the professional because you are all they have sometimes. The professional should never pressure or influence their client's decision in any way.