duty to protect

the obligation of mental health professionals to protect their clients from self-harm as well as to protect third parties from harm or violence that may result from their clients’ actions. This obligation may involve but is not necessarily restricted to a duty to warn. See Tarasoff decision.

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December 21st 2024

self-selection bias

a type of bias that can arise when study participants choose their own treatment conditions, rather than being randomly assigned. In such cases, it is impossible to state unambiguously that a study result is due to the treatment condition and not to the preexisting characteristics of those individuals who chose to be in this condition. Also called self-selection effect. See also sampling bias.