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Mandatory 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, 2018

Patient 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, 2018

Contact 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, 2018

Patient 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

Cyber Liability: Laptop Theft and Other PHI Breach Risks

Published November 22, 2017 Cyber risk: we've all heard about it. It's making headlines nationwide with large companies such as...

CPH Insurance November 22, 2017

General Topics / Considerations for Mental Health Professionals to Prevent Exposure to Licensing Board Complaints

Written August 2017 (Published October 2017) Below is a second outline to the previous article, "An Outline of Commonly Encountered...

Guest Author October 2, 2017

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