If a Mental Health Patient Makes a Specific Threat Against

question 9

Multiple Choice

If a mental health patient makes a specific threat against another person (i.e.,I'm going to stab my roommate Sandra the next time she wakes me up in the middle of the night with her partying") ,mental health professionals are expected to intervene to prevent such behaviour.This responsibility is called:

• A)The person protection act
• B)Civil commitment
• C)Duty to warn
• D)Unstructured clinical judgment
• E)Actuarial prediction

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