Author Question: If a client is found to be seriously thinking of killing or gravely harming some specific other ... (Read 39 times)

sarasara · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

If a client is found to be seriously thinking of killing or gravely harming some specific other person who can be identified by the crisis worker, the worker is required to consider the duty to warn implications

a. as specifically indicated in the client's scores on the Triage Assessment Scale.
b. according to rules found in Schneidman's Serial Characteristics formulation.
c. as dictated by case law in the Tarasoff case.
d. because it is morally and ethically right to do so.

Question 2

An analysis of the Seung Hoi suicide/homicide videotape indicates that, immediately prior to his suicide,

a. he was experiencing helplessness, hopelessness, and abandonment
b. he was experiencing unendurable psychological pain and frustrated psychological needs.
c. he demonstrated constricted thinking in that he was apparently unable to engage in alternative thought patterns or optional behaviors and lived in logic tight compartments.
d. All of the above were indicated in Seung's suicide/homicide videotape.