By Richard Read
The Oregonian
Originally posted June 4, 2015
The executive assistant to the director of the University of Oregon's Counseling Center disobeyed instructions last December and showed a therapist a confidential email from their boss.
The email's directions horrified both Karen Stokes, the director's assistant, and Jennifer Morlok, the clinician.
Shelly Kerr, the center's director, told Stokes in the Dec. 8, 2014, message to give the university's legal office a client's entire case file -- including notes taken by Morlok during private therapy sessions.
The client was a UO freshman who says she was gang raped multiple times on March 8, 2014, by three members of the men's basketball team.
Normally mental-health professionals go to great lengths, even in the face of court orders, to release as little information about clients as possible. Clinicians want patients to feel safe expressing their most intimate thoughts and feelings during therapy.
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