Court Responses to Tarasoff statutes

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-273

  Kachigian, Claudia ^a,c   Felthous, Alan R ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b S Illinois University School of Law   (United States)

^c Alton Mental Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COURT; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHIATRIST; REVIEW; TARASOFF DECISION; UNITED STATES;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; TARASOFF V. REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA;

CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DUTY TO WARN; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SUPREME COURT DECISIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4644292836     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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