Tarasoff Case Basics
Describe the facts of the Tarasoff case and how it established the duty to warn and protect.
Law & Ethical Duties
Examine New Mexico law, ethics codes, and the conflict between protecting others and maintaining confidentiality.
Best Practice Response
Apply ethical guidelines and clinical best practices when managing duty to warn and protect situations.
About the course
Learning Objectives By the end of this presentation, learners will be able to: 1. Describe the fact pattern of the Tarasoff case that defined the duty to warn and protect 2. Examine New Mexico Law and professional guidance regarding the duty to warn and protect 3. Articulate the ethical conflict between the duties of nonmaleficence and respect for patient confidentiality 4. Give examples of best clinical ethics practices in the management of duty to warn/protect cases
Meet Your Instructor
Cynthia M. A. Geppert, MD, PhD is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist, palliative care and addiction medicine physician, clinical ethicist, and theologian who spent 23 years in the Veterans Health Administration: retiring at the end of 2025 from the position of senior ethicist and legal liaison at the VA’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care .She is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. As adjunct professor of Bioethics at the Alden March Bioethics Center at Albany Medical College, she teaches courses in mental health and end-of-life ethics, law and policy and religious ethics and supervises and mentors graduate students. Dr. Geppert holds graduate degrees in religion, theology, health law, clinical ethics, bioethics, public health and the history of medicine and has performed or been involved in thousands of ethics consultations. Her more than 300 publications focus on end-of-life, religion and spirituality, medical and clinical ethics education, and psychiatric and addiction ethics.
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