Using the Following Case Study on Duty to Warn, Allow

question 4

Short Answer

Using the following case study on duty to warn, allow students five to ten minutes to review the case and to formulate an answer of yes or no with a brief explanation of how they arrived at their answers and to share their answers with the class.Then open it up for discussion.
Melanie is 19-year-old female who works as a hooker in New York City.She comes to your office for help when she learns she is HIV positive.She has been a hooker since the age of fifteen when she ran away from home.She informs you that she continues to have unprotected sex and on average has intercourse with four men per day.As her therapist do you have a duty to locate all the men she has had intercourse with to warn them they may be infected with HIV? Do you have an obligation to call the police?

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