The 1976 Tarasoff decision concerns:

A. therapists' duty to take reasonable steps to warn patients of lethal threats.
B. definitions of legal insanity.
C. minimally decent living conditions in psychiatric hospitals.
D. involuntary commitment.
E. definitions of psychiatric competence and incompetence.


Answer: A

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