When Patients Threaten to Kill: A Texas View of Tarasoff
Description:
A serious problem confronts the psychologist whose patient threatens, within the privacy of a therapy session, to inflict violent harm upon some third person. Therapists in Texas face a risk of unjust legal liability because of a lack of widely accepted, clearly and fully articulated standards. A questionnaire was submitted to Texas psychologists and Texas judges of mental illness courts. It involved a hypothetical case of a patient who threatened to kill his girlfriend. The hypothesis that no …
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Date:
August 1986
Creator:
Morgan, Minor Latham
Partner:
UNT Libraries