Please choose the correct ending to complete the given sentence: Health: [header] How to maintain confidentiality in counseling [title] Provide informed consent. [step] To give informed consent, the counselor must explain the benefits and risks of counseling as well as its alternatives. They must also explain state laws regarding when they may be required to break confidentiality and describe how they might be required to do so.

Ending1: The counselor must request permission to record counseling sessions in writing or via video and audio. Counselors have a wide range of issues they should raise during a discussion of informed consent. Ending2: In most states, it is illegal for a counselor to violate state or federal privacy laws. Therefore, if a counselor hurts anyone else or says something that would cause a lawful violation, then he or she should get a lawyer involved. Ending3: Non-custodial couples may be unable to disclose confidential information in counseling. [substeps] If a non-custodial partner has waited for another person to make necessary disclosures, he or she will not be allowed to share confidential information with the other person. Ending4: [substeps] In example, courts might refuse counseling if the patient is pregnant or having unprotected sex. The law states that anonymous patient information, such as sexual health records, can be shared with everyone under the age of 65.

Answer format: ending1/ending2/ending3/ending4