PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Milgram Experiment, Mental Health Professional, Involuntary Commitment
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What you must do, have to do. No everything that is unethical that is illegal. They is significant overlaps between legal and ethical. Main rule in clinical psychology: do not hurt or harm the client. If you harm the client, consequence include license taken away, fired. Informing authority about client killing someone: no do not have authority tell the police about it. If the client says i am going to harm somebody . Yes there is a legal responsibility to tell the authority. If they are going to harm themselves or some body else. Then there is legal responsibility to tell the authority. If they are going to do the murder or someone again. People in social conflict: legal issues include social conflict : hurt or bother others. One of the powers of the mental health professional: is to determine if the client exhibits abnormal behaviour or not.
