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Child Abuse Reporting-Signed Statement Required?
Avoiding Liability Bulletin – May 2018 State law (likely part of the child abuse reporting law) may require persons who...
Richard Leslie May 1, 2018Mental Illness, Guns and Dangerous Patients
Avoiding Liability Bulletin – April 2018 It seems that every time there is a mass shooting event, followed by an...
Richard Leslie April 3, 2018Mandatory Reporting, Confidentiality When Communicating With Other Health Care Professionals and Access to Records vs. Subpoena for Records
Avoiding Liability Bulletin - March 2018 MANDATORY REPORTING – DIFFERENT KINDS Most licensed mental health practitioners are aware of their...
Richard Leslie March 1, 2018Patient Suicide and Death by Rational End-Of-Life Decision
Avoiding Liability Bulletin – February 2018 While a patient’s suicide and a patient’s rational and legally supportable decision to end...
Richard Leslie February 1, 2018Contact with Patients Between Sessions Curtailed in California: A Dangerous Precedent
Avoiding Liability Bulletin - January 2018 At the beginning of the professional relationship between psychotherapist and patient it is important...
Richard Leslie January 2, 2018Patient Access to Treatment Records
Avoiding Liability Bulletin - December 2017 While mental health treatment records are owned by the practitioner (assuming a private practitioner/sole...
Richard Leslie December 1, 2017