As the client and psychologist are in the “ getting to know you “ phase there has come time to talk about the psychologist-client agreement. The Health Insurance Portability Act or HIPPA, is a federal law that provides new privacy protections and new patient rights that deals with the right to the use and disclosure of any Protected Health Information or PHI used for the purpose of treatment, payment, and health care operations ( McGarry, 2015). HIPPA make it so that it is mandatory that the psychologist give you a notice of privacy that will be used and provide information of PHI for treatment, payment, and health care systems.
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California,1976, which was a case where the Supreme Court of California …show more content…
His friends had suggested that he ight want to see a psychologist to help him through this. Prosenjit listened to the advice of his friends and because a patient of Dr. Lawrence Moore, a psychologist at UC Berkeley's Cowell Memorial Hospital. Prosenjit Poddar told Dr. Moore that he planned to kill Tatiana. Dr. Moore was worried and asked the campus police detain Prosenjit Poddar, saying that, in his professional opinion, Prosenjit was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, both acute and severe. The psychologist recommended that the Prosenjit be civilly committed as a dangerous person. They detained Prosenjit and then let go because he seemed to be rational to those around him. Dr. Moore's supervisor, Dr. Harvey Powelson, then ordered that Prosenjit Poddar not be subject to more …show more content…
Tobriner wrote a famous works of majority opinion. "The public policy favoring protection of the confidential character of patient-psychotherapist communications must yield to the extent to which disclosure is essential to avert danger to others. The protective privilege ends where the public peril begins." (newyorktimes,1982)
As of 2012, “33 states have adopted a mandatory duty to warn for mental health professionals in statute or common law, 11 states have a permissive duty, and six states are described as having no statutes or case law offering guidance. A duty to warn or protect is mandated and codified in legislative statutes of 23 states, while the duty s not codified in a statute but is present in the common law supported by precedent in 10 states.” (denervictims.org)
Informed consent is a legal procedure that makes sure that a person is aware of all the risks and costs that are involved in the requested treatment or procedure. The process in informing a client or patient is to inform them of what the process is of the treatment or procedure, maybe an alternative or offer a second opinion, educate them of the risks and the benefits. A client or patient has the right to informed refusal as well which the same it is just the client or patient is refusing
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California,1976, which was a case where the Supreme Court of California …show more content…
His friends had suggested that he ight want to see a psychologist to help him through this. Prosenjit listened to the advice of his friends and because a patient of Dr. Lawrence Moore, a psychologist at UC Berkeley's Cowell Memorial Hospital. Prosenjit Poddar told Dr. Moore that he planned to kill Tatiana. Dr. Moore was worried and asked the campus police detain Prosenjit Poddar, saying that, in his professional opinion, Prosenjit was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, both acute and severe. The psychologist recommended that the Prosenjit be civilly committed as a dangerous person. They detained Prosenjit and then let go because he seemed to be rational to those around him. Dr. Moore's supervisor, Dr. Harvey Powelson, then ordered that Prosenjit Poddar not be subject to more …show more content…
Tobriner wrote a famous works of majority opinion. "The public policy favoring protection of the confidential character of patient-psychotherapist communications must yield to the extent to which disclosure is essential to avert danger to others. The protective privilege ends where the public peril begins." (newyorktimes,1982)
As of 2012, “33 states have adopted a mandatory duty to warn for mental health professionals in statute or common law, 11 states have a permissive duty, and six states are described as having no statutes or case law offering guidance. A duty to warn or protect is mandated and codified in legislative statutes of 23 states, while the duty s not codified in a statute but is present in the common law supported by precedent in 10 states.” (denervictims.org)
Informed consent is a legal procedure that makes sure that a person is aware of all the risks and costs that are involved in the requested treatment or procedure. The process in informing a client or patient is to inform them of what the process is of the treatment or procedure, maybe an alternative or offer a second opinion, educate them of the risks and the benefits. A client or patient has the right to informed refusal as well which the same it is just the client or patient is refusing