During an interview with you, a client threatens to beat up her elderly parent. You believe she is serious. What should you do?
A. Maintain the client's confidentiality and report nothing.
B. Report the threat.
C. You have a duty to warn the parent.
D. Investigate your state's laws if you do not already know what
they are, and if required, undertake your duty to warn the
appropriate authority
D
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their drug use and then draw conclusions about rates of drug use in the communities the teenagers are from. This research may well be subject to:
a. the reductionist fallacy. b. the ecological fallacy. c. the inductive fallacy. d. the deductive fallacy
The majority of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities in the U.S. are:
a. private, profit-making businesses b. private, non-profit organizations c. public agencies d. owned by the community
The mere threat of touching in an harmful way is called
Select one: a. False imprisonment b. Battery c. Assault d. Negligence
Individuals who are diagnosed with a diurnal only type of enuresis are:
a) Passing urine in the waking hours b) Passing urine only during nighttime sleep c) Passing urine in both waking hours and during nighttime sleep d) None of the above patterns