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02/12/2004: "The Scary Part"

We've now entered the scary part of the course. The Monahan article usually shakes up the students in the class, and this coming week's article on the Tarasoff law and its various permutations is probably even scarier. For a while, you look at every client as a Tarasoff risk and the potential beginning of the end of your career. If we can't predict suicide or violence with any degree of accuracy, how can we protect ourselves? Where is that empirically-supported prediction algorithm when you need it?