If a mental health patient makes a specific threat against another person (i.e.,I'm going to stab my roommate Sandra the next time she wakes me up in the middle of the night with her partying"),mental health professionals are expected to intervene to prevent such behaviour.This responsibility is called:
A)The person protection act
B)Civil commitment
C)Duty to warn
D)Unstructured clinical judgment
E)Actuarial prediction

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Duty to warn is the legal and ethical responsibility of mental health professionals to warn potential victims when a patient presents a specific threat of violence against them. This duty was established in the landmark legal case Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California in 1976. The other options are not directly related to this responsibility.

If a Mental Health Patient Makes a Specific Threat Against