Yes…I know it’s trivial…but Xsplit Gamecaster has been sneaky, sneaky software tonight…for inexplicably having it’s own logo turned back on for no apparent reason…and then “lying to me” the whole freaking time, by not allowing it to apear on the screen while I was recording [which signifies that it’s going to be part of the end video]…but secretly recording it into the end video anyway.
I paid for the lifetime software license, to be rid of that logo…and I’ve now turned it back off…But why was it turned back on, after these past few years of keeping it off?
“This video answers the question: If a client confesses a murder to a counselor, does the counselor have to report it? I’ve heard a number of variants of this question as well, so not just murder, but other serious crimes like assault kidnapping, bank robbery, drug trafficking, and other crime. Now this may seem like a rare situation, but we do know that 40% of murders remain unsolved and of course high percentages of other serious crimes are unsolved as well. Many of these offenders do continue to commit crimes, so they could be in prison for something else and not the crime that they’re trying to hide. However, it is still possible and there have been counselors who have been in this situation before.
One key consideration would be the Duty to Warn / Duty to Protect as they may be applicable depending on the circumstances. This is combining the responsibilities of a mental health clinician to treat a client and help that client with this idea of protecting other people or protecting the public from the client. It gets into an area that a lot of counselors feel uncomfortable with and there are actually a lot of reasons to feel uncomfortable with it, because the law the duty to warn law or the duty to protect law is different in each state.
When we talk about the Tarasoff case, we’re really actually talking about two cases: there was a Tarasoff ruling in 1974 that provided this duty to warn (Tarasoff I), and Tarasoff II in 1976, which changed the duty to warn over to a duty to protect. The key finding in these cases was that the protective privilege of therapy ends where public peril begins.
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“A new book by journalist Michael Wolff reports that after years of downplaying his relationship with sex offender Jeffry Epstein, former President Trump took a “sudden interest” in the case after it became clear his time in the White House was coming to an end — and the issue of outgoing pardons was raised. Although Jeffry Epstein was found dead in his jail cell not long after his arrest, his right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested and mysteriously not murdered yet. The socialite was accused of aiding Epstein in his trafficking schemes, procuring young women for him, and even partaking in the sexual activity… so she knows where the bodies are buried, as they say. Trump reportedly wondered aloud whether she’d “roll on him”, which is organized crime-speak for tell what she knows about him. Dr Harriet Fraad joins us to discuss this matter.
Dr. Fraad is a mental health counselor and hypnotherapist in practice in New York City. Harriet specializes in speaking and writing about topics in which psychology and economics overlap. She is also the host of the “Capitalism Hits Home” Podcast,”
“This video answers the questions: Can I talk with the nature of rejection with the different personality disorders? What is emotional numbness? Does rejection lead to emotional numbness? What is the long-term effect of being manipulated? I will cover all the personality disorders, placing a special emphasis on cluster B personality pathology (antisocial, narcissistic, borderline, and histrionic personality disorders).”