Student Making Threats Against My Daughter

jym626
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:14:50 +0000

Agree, sodiumfree. There was a case about 10 year ago where a psychologist felt he had a duty to warn a named potential victim, but sought peer consultation before ultimately deciding to report the threat 2 weeks later. IIRC, it was because of that delay in reporting, while discussing it with colleagues, that the psychologist was successfully sued for breach of confidentiality, because by the time he reported it, the person no longer met criteria for posing an “imminent threat”. It is such a difficult position to be in.