In assessing a client for violent acting out or homicidal ideation, at what point is the duty to warn indicated?

What will be an ideal response?


If staff determines the client presents a serious risk to another person, then staff has an obligation to protect the intended victim. Precedent has been set in the 1976 case Tarasoff versus Regents of the University of California.

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refers to the affiliation with a large group of people who have common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background

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The term reciprocal determinism is associated with social learning theory

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The question of what is legally and ethically defensible is always open to a degree of interpretation

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In the Indiana state privitization example, the unevaluated simultaneous changes that took place

during implementation included: a) New elegibility rules and increased documentation requirements. b) New social workers taking over exisitng caseloads, new technological demands placed on an outdated system, and regular required case reveiws that demanded more staff time, yet provided no budget. c) New eligibility requirements and new offices that were hard to find and not near public transportation lines. d) A new document/information system, the change of staff from state employees to private employees, and new ways to apply for services.

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