Legal Dilemma: Duty to Warn?

Tarasoff v. Board of Regents

1969 seminal case spurred common law decisions nationwide about professional responsibility to client and third party

“A professional may be required to disclose confidential communications to prevent imminent harm to a third party.”

No Duty to Warn in Texas

Title 7: Texas Health & Safety Code, Authorized Disclosure of Confidential Information Other Than In Judicial Or Administrative Proceeding § 611.004

Texas Social Workers who feel compelled to warn medical, or law enforcement about their client are permitted to do so, as long as they believe that "there is a probability of imminent physical injury by the patient, to the patient or others"