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Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California , 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 ( Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient.
Other cases similar to the issues addressed in the Tarasoff case have been brought to the attention of the courts, such as the Jablonski by Pahls v. United States. The conclusion of that case extended the responsibility entailed in the duty to warn with the judgment that the clinician may be liable for failure to review previous records, which ...
In medical law and medical ethics, the duty to protect is the responsibility of a mental health professional to protect patients and others from foreseeable harm. [1] If a client makes statements that suggest suicidal or homicidal ideation, the clinician has the responsibility to take steps to warn potential victims, and if necessary, initiate involuntary commitment.
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The first case, Tarasoff I, imposed a "duty to warn". For a number of reasons, this caused great uproar within the mental health profession. The (California) Supreme Court revisited the case a year-and-a-half later. They modified the first case, replacing a "duty to warn" with a "duty to protect". This distinction between the first and second ...
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However, that case was not about shouting "fire" and the decision was later overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969. [163] [164] The US Armed Forces have generally forbidden military enlistment as a form of deferred adjudication (that is, an option for convicts to avoid jail time) since the 1980s. [165]