Legal and ethical issues for mental health professionals / directed by Greg Sommers ; written by Stephen Feldman ; produced by Stephen R. Feldman, Kathy Knowlton, Greg Sommers
Vol. 1. Confidentiality, privilege, reporting, and duty to warn -- Vol. 2. Dual relationship boundaries, standards of care & termination
Summary
Stephen Feldman, a renowned expert in the fields of both law and psychology, presents this tutorial on confidentiality, privilege, reporting, and the duty to warn. These issues are demonstrating in four vignettes in which a judge and her law clerk discuss actual key cases in the creation of mental health laws including Tarasoff and Jaffe v. Redmond. As the judge debates both sides of the argument and makes her decisions, viewers see how court rulings became laws and how they impact clinical, ethical, legal and moral concerns. To explain more about how laws affect practice, each vignette is followed by explanatory commentary from Mr. Feldman
