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Duty‐to‐Warn Guidelines for Mental Health Counselors
Author(s) -
Costa Luann,
Altekruse Michael
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1994.tb00947.x
Subject(s) - duty to warn , duty , mental health , psychology , duty to protect , ethical issues , medicine , confidentiality , psychiatry , engineering ethics , law , political science , engineering
There are few clear definitive guidelines for counselors to implement regarding duty‐to‐warn cases. In addition, ethical codes do not specifically address duty‐to‐warn issues. A tentative model to use as a guide in making clinical judgments in such cases is provided as well as case examples to exemplify possible ethical dilemmas in the practice of counseling.