IF AND ONLY IF

(1) an employee of a service provider is normally responsible for transmitting or recording communications from a service recipient to a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst, AND

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 33-3-208

  • Qualified mental health professional: means a person who is licensed in the state, if required for the profession, and who is a psychiatrist. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Service recipient: means a person who is receiving service, has applied for service, or for whom someone has applied for or proposed service because the person has mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
(2) the employee receives a communication from a service recipient of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim,

THEN

(3) the employee shall communicate the threat to the professional employed by the service provider.
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