It seems that every time there is a mass shooting event, followed by an outcry for gun control legislation (and school safety), there [...]
Most licensed mental health practitioners are aware of their duty to report knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse, elder [...]
While a patient’s suicide and a patient’s rational and legally supportable decision to end his/her life both result in the death of the [...]
At the beginning of the professional relationship between psychotherapist and patient it is important for practitioners to think about [...]
While mental health treatment records are owned by the practitioner (assuming a private practitioner/sole proprietorship), patients [...]
In the September 2017 issue of this Avoiding Liability Bulletin, I raised several questions regarding the related but different [...]
In the September 2017 issue of this Avoiding Liability Bulletin, I raised a number of questions concerning situations involving the [...]
One of the most important things for practitioners to know about family law involves the issue of child custody. More specifically, it [...]
Therapists and counselors are expected to be keenly aware of their duty of confidentiality, but it is often the case that confidential [...]
Therapists and counselors will encounter a variety of situations where they learn of (or reasonably suspect) an act that constitutes, [...]
I have consulted with licensed therapists who have asked, in a variety of contexts, whether they can safely (re: their liability) [...]
Last month I wrote about dangerous patient issues and the nature and breadth of the mental health practitioner’s duty to protect third [...]
