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Published Online: 1 April 2012

Ethics Commentary: Ethical Use of Power in High-Risk Situations

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Anfang SA, Appelbaum PS: Twenty years after Tarasoff: reviewing the duty to protect. Harv Rev Psychiatry 1996; 4:67–76
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Published online: 1 April 2012
Published in print: Spring 2012

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Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A.

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Address correspondence to Laura Roberts, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Rd., C3215, Stanford, CA 94305-5717; e-mail: [email protected]

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Commentary reprinted with some adaptation from LW Roberts, AR Dyer: Ethics in Mental Health Care. Arlington, VA, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2006, pp. 77-96.
Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., Chairman and Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Dr. Roberts reports: Editor-in-Chief, Academic Psychiatry; Owner, Investigator: Terra Nova Learning Systems.

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