Tag Archives: dangerous mental health patient situations
Mental Illness and Treating Dangerous Patients
It seems that each time there is a mass shooting, followed by an outcry for gun control legislation (and improvements to school [...]
Mental Illness, Guns and Dangerous Patients
It seems that every time there is a mass shooting event, followed by an outcry for gun control legislation (and school safety), there [...]
“Immunity from Liability” vs. “No Liability”
Last month I wrote about dangerous patient issues and the nature and breadth of the mental health practitioner’s duty to protect third [...]
Dangerous Patients – Duty to Warn / Duty to Protect
I have written extensively on this topic in this Avoiding Liability Bulletin and elsewhere. Over the years, statutes may have been [...]
“Predicting” and Preventing Suicide
While practitioners cannot be expected to reliably “predict” or foretell suicide, competent practitioners are expected to be [...]
Duty to the Patient – Termination of Treatment and Understanding Your Patient – Therapist Relationship and Expectations
… If the termination of treatment process is not properly carried out, the attempt to end the professional relationship can constitute, [...]
Termination Of Therapy When the Client Stops Attending Sessions
If clients “stop coming” to therapy, that suggests to me that there was a unilateral and perhaps un-communicated termination by the [...]
Patient Management Upon Risk of Termination: Offering One or More Free Sessions
The offer of one or more free termination sessions is something that therapists have used with patients regarding termination risk [...]
Elder Abuse
… Make sure that you know what the definition of an “elder” (or similar word or term) is so that if you are a mandated reporter of [...]
Immunities from Liability
… While I have written about this topic before in a variety of contexts, it is worth repeating and consolidating. Therapists and [...]