The Duty to Protect: Four Decades After Tarasoff

Tarasoff and Duty to Protect in North Carolina By: A

The Tarasoff raid: a new extension of the duty to protect.

The authors discuss the general outlines of the Tarasoff duty of psychotherapists to protect potential victims of their violent patients. They describe the flexible range of clinical responses that therapists have utilized, as well as their professional concerns about preserving patient confidentiality (or at least strictly circumscribing the scope of disclosure when confidentiality must be bre...

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

The duty to protect.

Privilege and confidentiality are central to the physician–patient relationship. These concepts are protected by law in almost all jurisdictions (1,2). Breaches of confidentiality have long been considered unethical and, in many situations, actionable. In this regard, physicians have been governed by their standards of practice, by the regulations of their professional colleges, and in many jur...

Recent cases interpret the Tarasoff duty to warn.