TY - JOUR PY - 1986// TI - Vermont adopts Tarasoff: a real barn-burner JO - American journal of psychiatry A1 - Stone, A. A. SP - 352 EP - 355 VL - 143 IS - 3 N2 - A recent Vermont Supreme Court decision adopts and extends the Tarasoff precedent. This paper emphasizes three aspects of the new precedent that are of possible consequence to providers of mental health care. First, the decision imposes the Tarasoff duty on all "mental health professionals". Second, it demonstrates a legal scenario that in effect permits a single standard of care to be applied to all mental health professionals. Third, it creates liability for property damage as well as for personal injury.

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