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duty to protect

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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