MN MFT ORAL EXAM 2024/2025 WITH
100% ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Minor - Precise Answer ✔✔individual under 18 years of age
Informed consent includes - Precise Answer ✔✔The patient must be
informed of and able to understand:
1) Diagnosis
2) Nature and purpose of proposed treatment
3) Risks and consequences of proposed treatment
4) Probability that treatment will be successful
5) Feasible treatment alternatives and have the ability to make a
voluntary choice among the alternatives
6) Prognosis if treatment is not given
Parental consent - Precise Answer ✔✔the traditional requirement that a
parent give consent for treatment of a minor child.
Confidentiality - Precise Answer ✔✔The principle of confidentiality
limits the disclosure of medical and mental health care information and
protects the privacy of the patient
,Is parental consent always necessary to provide medical or mental
healthcare to minors? - Precise Answer ✔✔Yes, unless certain
exceptions can be applied.
1)Statutory Law
2) Court decisions
Based on statutory law and court decisions, what are the two broad areas
of exception regarding parental consent? - Precise Answer ✔✔1) Status
of the minor
2)Category of care provided
What are the two exceptions to parental consent based on status of the
minor? - Precise Answer ✔✔Emancipated Minor
Mature Minor
Emancipated MInor - Precise Answer ✔✔In MN there is no procedural
court process by which a minor can be designated an "emancipated
minor" with full rights and privileges of adult status. However there are
state statues that "emancipate" the following categories of minors for
purpose of giving consent for health care. No other consent is required
regardless of age
1) living separate and apart from parents or guarding who is managing
her own finances
2) minor who is married
3) minor who has borne a child
, Mature Minor - Precise Answer ✔✔Although there is no specific
precedent in Minnesota case law related to application of the "mature
minor" concept, there is significant case law from other states supporting
practitioners who elect to provide care under this doctrine. If the mature
minor doctrine is employed, the minor must be judged capable of giving
informed consent. It applies where: no other exceptions to parental
consent apply, and parental involvement is impractical or problematic.
Criteria are:
1. Minor is 15
2. Minor is able to give informed consent
3. proposed treatment is for the minor's benefit
4. proposed treatment is deemed necessary
5. proposed treatment does not involve complex, high risk medical
procedures or complex, high-risk surgery.
What are the categories of medical, mental, and other health services for
which a minor may give his or her own consent in the state of mn? -
Precise Answer ✔✔1. Emergency care
2. Pregnancy related care
3. STD's
4. Contraceptive care
5. abortion
6. Alcohol and other drug abuse
7. Inpatient mental health services (must be 16)
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