Summary
Contents
Subject index
This concise volume examines exactly what is involved in keeping adequate clinical records of individual, family, couple and group psychotherapy. The authors discuss: limits of confidentiality; retention and disposing of records; documentation of safety issues; client access to records; treatment of minors; and training and supervision issues. Throughout the book, legal cases, vignettes and professional commentary help readers to consider legal and ethical issues.
Danger to others
Danger to others
This chapter discusses the importance for you to assess for clients who may be dangerous to others and how to document such cases. The topic of violence generates a variety of concerns and emotions among psychotherapists. Some choose to deny the possibility that their clients would actually injure another person, whereas others fear for their own safety, the safety of their own families, or others in society. Since the California court 1976 ruling in the Tarasoff appeal (see Appendix A), mental health professionals have been seriously concerned about the ethical and legal ramifications of the “duty to warn and protect.” Of equal concern to therapists is the potential liability in court actions in dealing with clients who are dangerous to ...
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