OLERE - Oklahoma Legal and Ethical Responsibilities Crisis Intervention and Duty to Protect Flashcards
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When an Oklahoma LPC makes a duty-to-warn disclosure because a client has threatened a specific individual, the counselor must:
Answer: Document the threat assessment, the decision rationale, and the protective actions taken
All duty-to-warn disclosures must be thoroughly documented, including the nature of the threat, the clinical assessment, and every protective step taken.
Under Oklahoma statutes, the duty-to-protect obligation may be fulfilled by which of the following actions?
Answer: Warning the threatened person, notifying law enforcement, or pursuing hospitalization
The duty to protect can be fulfilled through a combination of warning the potential victim, alerting law enforcement, or pursuing voluntary or involuntary hospitalization of the client.
An Oklahoma LPC who fails to take reasonable protective action after a client makes a credible threat to a third party may face:
Answer: Civil liability, State Board disciplinary action, and potential criminal exposure
Failure to fulfill the duty to protect can expose the Oklahoma LPC to civil lawsuits from the harmed party, professional discipline by the State Board, and in serious cases, criminal liability.
When a client contacts an Oklahoma LPC in crisis outside of regular session hours, the counselor's ethical responsibility is to:
Answer: Have a documented emergency protocol and ensure clients have access to crisis resources at all times
Ethical standards require LPCs to have documented after-hours crisis protocols and ensure clients always have access to emergency resources, regardless of when the crisis occurs.
Providing crisis intervention via telephone or telehealth in Oklahoma requires the LPC to:
Answer: Adhere to the same ethical, clinical, and legal standards that apply to in-person crisis intervention
The medium of delivery does not change the LPC's ethical and legal obligations — telephone and telehealth crisis care must meet the same standards as in-person crisis intervention.
Which scenario MOST clearly obligates an Oklahoma LPC to take immediate protective action under the duty-to-protect standard?
Answer: A client describes a specific plan to shoot a named neighbor and shows the counselor a photo of the weapon
A specific, lethal plan combined with access to the means and an identified target meets the legal threshold for the duty to protect and requires immediate action.