TITLE 6

ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES

CHAPTER 19

LIMITATION OF A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL’S DUTY TO WARN

6-1902.  A mental health professional’s duty to warn. A mental health professional has a duty to warn a victim if a patient has communicated to the mental health professional an explicit threat of imminent serious physical harm or death to a clearly identified or identifiable victim or victims, and the patient has the apparent intent and ability to carry out such a threat.

History:

[6-1902, added 1991, ch. 235, sec. 1, p. 565.]