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Discussing safety and harm risks in psych with providers and patients.
About The Tarasoff Law The following article provides some insight into utilizing the Tarasoff (duty to warn) law. Long story short, it’s not easy! Almost everything dealing with legal matters can be tedious in psych. However, the article does offer some solid advice, safety considerations, and ways to improve clinical practice while dealing with extreme […]
Continue Reading50 Signs of Questionable Treatment by Mental Health Therapists Hopefully, this will encourage people to do seek better care and provide an NP with warning signs though most of it is pretty straightforward: Counselor does not have sufficient and specific training to address your issues and/or attempts to treat problems outside the scope of the […]
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Dealing with Violence in Mental Health Care Violence in healthcare is somewhat difficult to discuss but the trends in nursing, particularly with mental health, in this year alone is getting very scary: Autistic Boy Stabbed with Syringes, and the Nurse Loses License New Jersey regulators have revoked the nursing license of a woman caught on […]
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Increasingly popular herbal drug tied to over 90 fatal overdoses The over-the-counter herbal drug kratom has been linked to an increasing number of overdose deaths, federal health officials said this week. Kratom was a cause of death in at least 91 fatal overdoses in the United States from July 2016 to December 2017, and 152 tested positive for […]
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