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- Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California - Wikipedia
Tarasoff v Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal 3d 425, 551 P 2d 334, 131 Cal Rptr 14 (Cal 1976), was a landmark case [1][2][3] 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
- Tarasoff: Making Sense of the Duty to Warn or Protect
In Tarasoff I, the court ruled that doctors and psychotherapists have a legal obligation to warn a patient’s intended victim if that person is in foreseeable danger from the patient Warning the police or other authorities is not good enough This is a concept known as the “duty to warn ”
- Tarasoff “Duty To Warn”: What Does the Tarasoff Ruling . . . - BetterHelp
The Tarasoff I and Tarasoff II rulings are legal mandates that oblige mental health professionals to warn potential victims if dangerous patients threaten to commit a violent crime against them
- No Duty to Warn in California: Now Unambiguously Solely a Duty to . . .
In 2013, legislation went into effect clarifying that the Tarasoff duty in California is now unambiguously solely a duty to protect Warning the potential victim and the police is not a requirement, but a clinician can obtain immunity from liability by using this safe harbor
- Revisiting Tarasoff - Psychology Today
The Tarasoff case is based on the 1969 murder of a university student named Tatiana Tarasoff
- The Duty to Protect: Four Decades After Tarasoff | American Journal of . . .
The immediate dilemma created by the Tarasoff ruling is that of identifying the point at which "dangerousness" (typically, but not always, of an identifiable individual) outweighs protective privilege
- Tarasoff v. California and the Duty to Protect - LegalClarity
The case of Tarasoff v Regents of the University of California reshaped the legal responsibilities of mental health professionals across the United States It addressed the intersection of a therapist’s duty to a patient and their obligation to public safety
- Tarasoff Duty - BulletPoints Project
California’s duty to protect, or “Tarasoff,” statute is based on a case in which a student at the University of California (UC) Berkeley told his therapist he planned to kill a woman he had been dating, Tatiana Tarasoff, and then did so
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