Tarasoff, the doctrine of special relationships, and the psychotherapist's duty to warn.

Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California: psychotherapist's obligation of confidentiality versus the duty to warn.

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Tarasoff at thirty: victim's knowledge shrinks the psychotherapist's duty to warn and protect.

The duty to warn: a reconsideration and critique.

A previous article in this Journal surveyed a psychotherapist’s legal duty to warn third parties of violent threats made by a patient. Twenty-seven states impose an actual duty to warn (as did the seminal case of Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California itself ): Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minne...

It's been a privilege: advising patients of the Tarasoff duty and its legal consequences for the federal psychotherapist-patient privilege.

State laws modeled on Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California require psychotherapists to warn potential victims or law enforcement when treating dangerous patients who make serious threats of harm to another person. In practice, many psychotherapists advise their patients who make such threats about their duty under these Tarasoff-model laws. Although they are not required to make ...

Back to the past in California: a temporary retreat to a Tarasoff duty to warn.

The original Tarasoff decision created a duty for California psychotherapists to warn potential victims of their patients. After rehearing the matter two years later, the California Supreme Court, in the landmark second Tarasoff decision, changed the duty to warn to a duty to protect potential victims, with warning as only one of the options for discharging that duty. Despite this change, the T...