Scales

  
Select A Topic . . .
Access to Records - "Noncustodial Parent"
Advertising
Advertising - "Expertise"
Advertising - Sliding Fee Scale
Attending the Patient's Wedding (or Other Significant Event)
Authorization Forms
Avoid These Common Errors
Bequest from Patient
Business License
Child Abuse
Child Abuse - Emancipation of Minor
Child Abuse Report Required or Permitted?
Child Abuse Reporting
Child Abuse Reporting - Duty to Investigate?
Child Abuse Reporting - Neglect
Confidentiality - "No Secrets" Policy (Couple Being Treated)
Confidentiality - AIDS/HIV
Confidentiality - Child Abuse Investigations
Confidentiality - Conflicting Requests
Confidentiality - Couple Being Treated
Confidentiality - Dangerous Patient?
Confidentiality - Death of the Patient
Confidentiality - Exception
Confidentiality - Fact of the Relationship
Confidentiality - Group Therapy
Confidentiality - Pregnancy of a Minor
Confidentiality - The Search Warrant
Confidentiality - The Unexpected Caller
Confidentiality and Authorization Forms
Confidentiality and HIPAA
Confidentiality and the Dangerous Patient
Conflicts
Consent to Treat Minor (Sole and Joint Legal Custody)
Consent vs. Authorization
Custody and Visitation Disputes - The Big Mistake
Dangerous Patient - Immunity From Liability
Dangerous Patients and the “Tarasoff Duty"
Dangerous Patients and the Therapist's Duty
Disciplinary Actions
Dual or Multiple Relationships - An Overview
Elder Abuse
Elder Abuse/Dependent Adult Abuse Reporting
Ethical Standards - Conflict with the Law
Ethics
Family Law - "Joint Custody"
Fees
Fees - Barter
Fees - Raising Fees
Fees - Sue the Patient?
Fees - The Sliding Fee Scale
Gifts - To and From Patients
HIPAA
HIPAA - Enforcement
HIPAA - Patient Access to "Psychotherapy Notes"
HIPAA - Psychotherapy Notes/Records
HIPAA - Right to Amend Records
HIPAA - Subpoena for Records and Notes
Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy
Immunity From Liability
Informed Consent
Informed Consent - Videotaping/Risks
Informed Consent: Hugs and Other Touching
Laws, Regulations, and the Attorney Generals' Opinions
Liability for the Acts of Others
Licensing and Certification
Mandatory Continuing Education - Does it work?
Negligence vs. Gross Negligence
Online Therapy
Online Therapy - Disclosure
Online Therapy - HIPAA
Online Therapy - Insurance Coverage
Parental Access to Records of Minor
Partnerships - Be Careful
Privilege - A Common Waiver
Privilege - Group Therapy
Privilege - Waiver
Privilege and Confidentiality
Privileged Communications
Professional Corporations
Records - Destruction at the Request of the Patient?
Records - Removal of Information From File
Records - Stolen, Lost or Destroyed
Referrals
Scope of Competence
Scope of License
Self Disclosure
Something Lighter - Cancel the Appointment
Something Lighter - Law and Sausage!
Something Lighter - Self Defense
Something Lighter: A Definition of "Psychotherapy"
Telemedicine - Hours of Experience Toward Licensure?
Telemedicine: Telephone Counseling/Therapy?
Termination - Who is the Patient
Termination of Employment: Who "Owns" the Patient?
Termination of Treatment
Testifying in Court
Think About This - Child Abuse?
Treating Children
Treating Multiple Members of a Family - Conflicts
Treatment Records
Treatment Records - Ownership
Using Patient Information in Public Presentations
Verbal Abuse - Free Speech
 

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by Richard S. Leslie, J.D. Click here for profile.
Attorney at Law - "At the Intersection of Law and Psychotherapy"

Something Lighter - Cancel the Appointment

(June 2005 , Volume 1)

… A therapist called me to consult and indicated that the patient had called and had threatened to kill the therapist at their next appointment. The therapist asked, “What’s my duty?” My answer was “cancel your appointment!” And for this, I went to law school!! We also discussed, in detail, the fact that the duty of confidentiality does not require a therapist to suffer physical threats from the patient without the opportunity to take appropriate steps to protect himself/herself.