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A client who has been in therapy for 6 months requests a copy of their full treatment record. The social worker believes that reviewing the raw psychotherapy notes may be emotionally destabilizing for the client due to recent trauma work. What should the social worker do NEXT?
a. Refuse the request because releasing records could harm the client
b. Provide a treatment summary instead of the full record
c. Provide access to the records or offer a summary, documenting the clinical reasoning
d. Require the client to obtain a court order before releasing any records