2012
DOI: 10.1080/87568225.2012.711182
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The Legal Side of Campus Threat Assessment and Management: What Student Counselors Need to Know

Abstract: This article identifies what student mental health professionals need to know about legal issues of relevance to threat assessment and management. The article summarizes the common law duties and the common law and statutory standards of care that are likely to apply to the work of college and university threat assessment and management teams. The article also addresses privacy law, disability law, policy, and documentation-related issues that often present challenges in the campus threat assessment and manage… Show more

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“…In addition, the mainstreaming disability legislations such as the ADA of 1990 and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 continue to call attention to the diverse mental health needs of IWDs that have been long neglected and the relevant intervention services for them (Etscheidt, 2002;Nolan & Moncure, 2012). In fact, these major legislative changes for IWDs have greatly affected the scope of the work and the role of rehabilitation counselors and other professional counselors who serve clients with disabilities in diverse counseling areas, such as school counseling (Frye Myers, 2005;Owens et al, 2011;Scarborough & Gilbride, 2006) and public health and managed care (Pelletier et al, 2013).…”
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“…In addition, the mainstreaming disability legislations such as the ADA of 1990 and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 continue to call attention to the diverse mental health needs of IWDs that have been long neglected and the relevant intervention services for them (Etscheidt, 2002;Nolan & Moncure, 2012). In fact, these major legislative changes for IWDs have greatly affected the scope of the work and the role of rehabilitation counselors and other professional counselors who serve clients with disabilities in diverse counseling areas, such as school counseling (Frye Myers, 2005;Owens et al, 2011;Scarborough & Gilbride, 2006) and public health and managed care (Pelletier et al, 2013).…”
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“…These practices include both the team's identifying, investigating, evaluating, and managing threats and other behaviors of concern and also broader campus policies and resources that support an effective campus threat assessment process (Deisinger et al, 2008;Nolan et al, 2011;Randazzo & Plummer, 2009). …”
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“…In the opinion of some commentators, moreover, campus threat assessment is not merely a recommendation but an emerging standard of care, at least for U.S. colleges and universities (Nolan, Randazzo, & Deisinger, 2011). In 2008, the commonwealth of Virginia passed a law requiring public colleges and universities and the state of Illinois passed a law requiring all higher educational institutions to establish threat assessment teams.…”
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