Tag Archives: duty to protect
A Brief Review of Some Duties and Requirements
What are the various duties or obligations of a licensed mental health practitioner? Are there both legal duties and ethical duties, [...]
Are There Limits to a Nurse’s Duty to Advocate for Patients?
In the following case1, an LPN and a charge nurse’s attempted management of a patient centered on their respective duty to protect the [...]
Law and Ethics: Questions to Ponder
There comes a time when the practitioner believes that the patient presents a serious and imminent danger of violence against the [...]
Dangerous Patients and the “Tarasoff Duty”
… Wow - what a problem exists in California! Therapists are in somewhat of a precarious situation for a number of reasons related to a) [...]
Dangerous Patients and the Therapist’s Duty
… In a previous issue of the Avoiding Liability Bulletin, under the heading of Dangerous Patients and the “Tarasoff Duty”(April 2005, [...]
Immunity From Liability
… In the April 2005 (Volume 2) issue of the Avoiding Liability Bulletin I wrote about a huge problem in the state of California with [...]
Suicide / Self Harm – The Practitioner’s Role
… Occasionally I am asked to opine on the subject of a mental health practitioner’s participation in what can be called “supportive [...]
“Duty To Warn”
… Only (my tongue is firmly implanted in cheek) thirty-six years after the landmark Tarasoff vs. Regents of the University of [...]
The Dangerous Patient – Again!
… Two separate events spurred me to once again write about this topic. First, the Governor of California signed a bill into law in July [...]
Preventing Gun & Other Violence…The Dangerous Patient
With the President, Vice-President, and Congress focusing on the prevention of gun violence as a result of yet another horrifying [...]
Psychiatrist Shoots Patient
In a recent issue of the Avoiding Liability Bulletin (March 2014), I asked whether it was ever permissible for a mental health [...]
Confidentiality and the Dangerous Patient
Although I have previously written about this topic on several occasions (see Archives), the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech in April [...]