Homework Help: psychology 220

Posted by G. KAY on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 12:28am.

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(1 pts.) You are a therapist and one of your clients has just told you that he is planning to murder his neighbor. Based on the principle of "duty to warn" what is the primary thing you should do?

A) Ignore your client's threat.
B) Notify the potential victim's family.
C) Hospitalize the client immediately.
D) Notify the potential victim of the person's intent.
(my answer is "D Notify the potential victim of the person's intent") am i right?

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