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Originally Posted by sheltiemom2007
If you have a client you know is a stalker, has antisocial personality disorder, a history of harrassing other therapists, violence and so on...the therapist has got good grounds to be worried for her safety. There are some very dangerous people seeking therapy. You wouldn't know it if its not you, but your psychiatrist and psychologist certainly know who they are.
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Yeats ago we had a patient who after being with us for a while and discharged he started making death threats towards the psychiatrist. The doctor has very minimal online presence however if a person googles enough they can find his wife and then google a bunch more figure out about his children and where he lives.
The client also was able to figure out the Doctors work schedule. I was asked to help find a picture of the patient for the office he works at (if in the chart or whatever or even online if there was anything. I found own on FB. We had discussions with the hospital lawyer and management to see if it was ethical to use the pictures. It was decided that based on the severity and nature of the threats it was important to have a picture for safety reason. It was not handled lightly though