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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463028203321

Autore

Sisti Dominic A

Titolo

Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care [[electronic resource] ] : An Interdisciplinary Reader

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-262-31724-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 p.)

Collana

Basic Bioethics

Altri autori (Persone)

CaplanArthur L

Rimon-GreenspanHila

Disciplina

174.29689

Soggetti

Physician and patient -- Ethics

Psychiatry -- Ethics

Psychotherapists -- Professional ethics

Substance abuse -- Treatment

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Series Foreword""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""I Foundational Questions""; ""1 Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease,and Diagnosis""; ""2 Moot Questions in Psychiatric Ethics""; ""3 The Ethics of Psychotherapy""; ""4 Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice""; ""II  Capacity, Coercion, and Consent""; ""5 Psychiatric Advance Directives and the Treatment of Committed Patients""; ""6 Denying Autonomy in Order to Create It: The Paradox of Forcing Treatment upon Addicts""; ""7 End-Stage Anorexia: Criteria for Competence to Refuse Treatment""

""8 ""Personality Disorder� and Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions""""III Violence, Trauma, and Treatment""; ""9 Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder""; ""10 The Experience of Violent Injury for Young African American Men: The Meaning of Being a “Sucker�""; ""11 The Psychological Impact of Rape Victims' Experiences with the Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Systems""; ""IV Addiction""; ""12 Addiction as Accomplishment: The Discursive Construction of Disease""; ""13 The Ethics of Addiction""; ""14 Myths about the Treatment of Addiction""



""15 Ethical Considerations in Caring for People Living with Addictions""""V Mental Illness and the Courts""; ""16 Confidentiality and the Prediction of Dangerousness in Psychiatry""; ""17 Madness versus Badness: The Ethical Tension between the Recovery Movement and Forensic Psychiatry""; ""18 Ethical Considerations of Multiple Roles in Forensic Services""; ""19 Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian  Judges""; ""VI Therapeutic Boundaries""; ""20 Boundary Violation Ethics: Some Conceptual Clarifications""

""21 The Price of a Gift: An Approach to Receiving Gifts from Patients in Psychiatric Practice""""22 How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness""; ""23 Boundary Issues in Social Work: Managing Dual Relationships""; ""24 Patient-Targeted Googling: The Ethics of Searching Online for Patient Information""; ""25 Professional Boundaries in the Era of the Internet""; ""Contributors""; ""Permissions and Credits""; ""Index""; ""Series List ""

Sommario/riassunto

This volume discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition of mental illness itself.