Statutory Remedies to the Duty to Protect: A Reconsideration

Author(s)

Samuel Knapp, Pennsylvania Psychological Association
Leon Vandecreek, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
David L. Shapiro, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1990

Publication Title

Psychotherapy

Volume

27

Issue/Number

2

First Page

291

ISSN

0033-3204

Last Page

296

Abstract/Excerpt

Offers a brief history of duty-to-protect statutes, which limit the liability of psychotherapists who treat life-endangering outpatients and protect therapists who make good-faith warnings when danger to identifiable victims is predictable. Fears are discussed that surround the possibility that courts will continue to expand the Tarasoff (1976) decision beyond its original parameters. Current statutory remedies to problems related to the Tarasoff decision are discussed, and the intent of duty-to-protect laws is examined. Alternative wording to these statutes is offered.

DOI

10.1037/0033-3204.27.2.291

NSUWorks Citation

Knapp, S., Vandecreek, L., Shapiro, D. L. (1990). Statutory Remedies to the Duty to Protect: A Reconsideration. Psychotherapy, 27(2), 291-296.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/545