Sentences with phrase «danger to self»

However, law requires the following exceptions to client confidentiality: Where there is suspicion or evidence of child or elder abuse, Where there is reasonable suspicion that the client presents danger to self or other, and court order.

I provide Evaluation Services, including (and not limited to): diagnostic clarification (ADHD, Autism, Learning Disabilities, etc.), cognitive / neuropsychological screening (IQ, Memory), workers» compensation evaluations (QME / AME), parenting / bonding assessment (child custody cases), pre-adoption psychological evaluation, immigration - related evaluations, forensic evaluations, and danger to self / others risk assessment.»

Studying detained youth requires special procedures because they are minors, they are detained, and many do not have a parent or guardian who can provide appropriate consent.38 Project staff approached participants on their units, explained the project, and assured them that anything they told us (except comments implying imminent danger to self or others) would be confidential.

Emergency procedures were developed with each site, and clinicians were available to address any emergencies or issues of serious concern (eg, report of current suicidality, danger to self or others).

Seclusion is a procedure that isolates and confines a student in a separate room or area until the student is no longer an immediate danger to the self or others.

Undeniably beautiful, the virginal woman — who hasn't even kissed a man — recognizes that the greatest danger to her self - reliance would be marriage.

Before Kids: The greatest danger to your self - esteem in a changing room is unflattering lighting.

After Kids: The greatest danger to your self - esteem in a changing room is your kid grabbing your exposed tummy and gleefully exclaiming, «It's like Jell - O!»

Assuming they are not a danger to them self or others, here is the best way to respond:

Unless someone presents a clear and immediate danger to self or others, no one can compel another person to receive mental health treatment.

You are danger to your self in your disbelief and unreasonable fears... because you don't believe in God, otherwise for us we say to what ever that happens that it was God's Will that make things happen and not man.

Not exact matches

But self - learning machines are concerning enough to draw the attention of big thinkers like Musk — he referred to AI as «our biggest existential threat» — as well as Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, with whom Musk co-authored a letter about the technology's dangers.

In this article, I will outline danger areas for self - PR and ways to get around them.

Instead of opting for a coveted internship like many of his Stanford MBA counterparts, JuicyCampus.com founder Matt Ivester self - published a book alerting readers to the potential dangers of social networks.

Automakers such as Ford have come to the same conclusion, pushing for full autonomy because there's a danger in providing so much self - driving assistance that the driver is lulled into complacency and can't retake control of the vehicle quickly.

In this self - reflexive loop volatility can reinforce itself both lower and higher... The danger is that the multi-trillion-dollar short volatility trade, in all its forms, will contribute to a violent feedback loop of higher volatility.»

That's the danger with the anthropomorphism of God... one people making self idolizing images of themselves of a human God vis - à - vis Jesus, making graven images of themselves, blonde hair blue eyed Jesus»... then elevating themselves above all other men, a self reinforcing feedback to oneselfs, as if they are Gods, which is blasphemy.

That's a tough thing to deal with, because that «false self» is a form of protecton against some perceived threat of danger.

the Allah / Yahweh / Jehovah or the «one god» is a danger to creation its self.

The danger of individual or collective self - deception renders this dilemma especially treacherous, and reference to God or religion makes the problem seem even more unsolvable.

While there are certain theologies that I know I agree with, and I don't see anything wrong with allying one's self with a theology, I have been impressed lately with the danger of being ultimately loyal to a theology, rather than to the Word of God.

I believe this to be a change of historic importance, and that the sooner we recognize this change and begin to reflect on its implications, the less the danger of self - destruction.

The decline of a moral conscience grounded in absolute values is still our problem, and left untreated, it can lead to the self - destruction of the European conscience, which we must begin to consider as a real danger — above and beyond the decline predicted by Spengler.

The danger is this: self - examination may spawn attempts at self - improvement, with the result that looking at self replaces looking to God, and small measures of merit replace the immeasurable grace of God.

The media's obsession with the rise and fall of its celebrities, even shared with notes of positivity, continues to weave a tangled narrative about the dangers of mental illness, self - harm and addiction.

From my admittedly limited vantage point, the gravest dangers for us seem to be not legalism but antinomianism, not intellectualism but sentimentalism, not scrupulosity but laxity, not despair but presumption, not all - out retreat but all - out assimilation, not pharisaic ritualism but anti-liturgical iconoclasm, not missionary timidity but evangelical over-hastiness, not self - referentialism but self - forgetfulness (and not the good kind), not stifling uniformity but disjointed miscellany, not clericalism but, for lack of a better word, laicism.

Precisely because we tend to be prejudiced (what people politely call «having a pre-understanding») we have to be self - critical and take action against the danger of Scripture - twisting.

If a person is self content that they have all the answers, they become a danger to others, as well as to themselves.

Anyone who doubts this ought to reread that brilliant, genreconscious postmodernist (not existentialist) Soren Kierkegaard on sin, grace and the decentered Christian self Even the otherwise happy recovery of the traditions of Christian spirituality in our day are also in danger of becoming further fine - tuning, further new peak experiences for the omnivorously consuming modem self.

Experts say a victim may swat an aggressor in self - defense, to retaliate, and sometimes in anticipation of danger (a word, gesture or look).

Freud came upon the «death instinct,» which helped to explain the attraction of danger, as well as some of the internal dynamics of repression and self - inflicted pain.

If there is a natural sense of altruism, it is undoubtedly linked to some long - range sense of danger to the species and the Aristotelian instinct of self - preservation.

You are quickly on your way to becoming yet another self - righteous, self - prioritized religious sect that is a potential danger to my personal safety.

I will have to go with what flashed in my mind from the first thoughts: Bitterness / * anger * (at God too), danger, «loneliness,» gained social anxieties, unwarranted guilt, and deep self examination / awareness minus the worlds, and others, demands, doctrines, political correctness, corruption, social engineering, and expectations.

Reacting against the doctrine that pride is always the essence of sin, and influenced by the findings of psychiatry concerning the opposite danger of excessive self - depreciation, a number of contemporary theologians have pointed to the need for self - respect.

Referring to the criticism made by Peter Beyerhaus and some others that in the World Council's emphasis on social and political justice there is present a social utopianism which denies the fact of sin and affirms a self - redemptive humanism, Thomas admitted that the danger is always present, but pointed out the opposite danger of not admitting the fact of divine grace and the power of righteousness it releases for a daring faith in the realms of social and political action.

Civil societies, for example, are relatively self - sustaining totalities, unified fields of activity for their human members; but they can not be considered even metaphorically as substances without the concomitant danger of totalitarianism, i.e., the radical subordination of individuals to the social whole.

The incident with the man carrying the bedroll is the exact opposite to the woman caught in adultery her issue was sin the paralysed mans issue is something completely different.The incident of the man carrying the bedroll gives it away jesus highlights it because it is rediculous they have turned Gods laws in to petty man made laws.so the danger for him is self righteousness to become like they were followers of the law but not followers of God that is the danger that we all face either to come to terms with the sin in our lives and or come to terms with our pride and self righteousness the answer to both is the same deny the flesh and walk by the spirit and go and sin no more.That way we evade these traps of the flesh.

In this post-Prohibition era there are many people who are «allergic» to the usual temperance approach, but who will listen with rapt attention when alcoholism is presented as an illness to the danger of which one exposes one's self when he drinks.

Gradually he learned to recognize the danger signs of regression into 1 - ism --- the ego - centric, self - pitying, demanding superiority feeling that always seemed, in retrospect, to precede a drinking bout.

One of the major problems in Christian theology and social ethics is to relate this warning against the danger of self - righteousness on all sides to the necessity of taking a stand.

But if we never forget that Calvary is the culmination of a whole life of obedience, self - surrender, and self - giving to God, and that the medieval sayings are right which speak of «the whole life of Christ as the mystery of the Cross» and of the sacrifice of Christ as «not the death but the willingness of him who dies,» we are delivered from this danger so far as our Lord's death is concerned.

1 The guru of the World Economic Forum, George Soros, has said the same, arguing that a purely transactional approach to economic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral constraints.2

Consequently, our apology must understand, or allow us to understand, that in our folly of self - government, the luxury of luxuries in an unkind and intolerant world, we had best not press on unashamed, undaunted, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear the continuing dangers to democratic life.

«Mad scientist» narratives can also show us the dangers of giving in to self - idolatry and attempting to supplant God in matters of life and death, creation and destruction.

Today it often encompasses a spectrum of images: suicidal or self - harming teenagers, Prozac prescriptions, people who are a «danger to themselves and others,» or more.

Most self - injurers will say that they rather hurt themselves than anyone else, but it's a form of self - sacrifice, and so these folks are generally not a danger to other people.

It is deeply unfortunate that your stories serve as object lessons of the dangers of homebirth, but, in my judgment, the loss is compounded if we refuse to learn from these deaths, if we refuse to acknowledge just how common they are, if we let substandard self - proclaimed «midwives» continue practicing, and if we allow organizations like MANA (the Midwives Alliance of North America) to get away with hiding serial «babyslaugher,» the newborn equivalent of unintentional manslaughter deaths.

Instead of installing three gates and Plexiglas for the banister, we ran one large sectional safety gate with an easy access door to corral the baby into the safe area of the room, installed self closing electrical outlets and removed any other dangers from the area creating a safe area for the baby to play.

It is deeply unfortunate that your story serves as an object lesson of the dangers of homebirth, but, in my judgment, the loss is compounded if we refuse to learn from these deaths, if we refuse to acknowledge just how common they are, and if we let substandard self - proclaimed «midwives» continue practicing.