Confidentiality for mental health professionals [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to ethical and legal principles / / Annegret Kåmpf ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Bowen Hills, Qld., : Australian Academic Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (144 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: Confidential communications - Psychiatrists - Australia; Mental health personnel - Professional ethics - Australia; Mental health personnel - Legal status, laws, etc - Australia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KåmpfAnnegret
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Concept of Confidentiality; Chapter 2: The Ethical Framework for Confidentiality; Chapter 3: Codes of Ethics; Chapter 4: The Legal Framework for Protecting Confidentiality; Chapter 5: Common Law Exceptions and Limitations to Maintaining Confidentiality; Chapter 6: Statutory Schemes; Chapter 7: Ethical Decision-Making in Confidentiality Dilemmas; Chapter 8: Quick Guides; Table of Cases; Table of Statutes; References; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Those who work in the mental health sector will sometimes need to consider whether they are ethically or legally obliged to disclose certain personal information revealed by their clients and patients to third parties. This book focuses on the actual decision-making process of disclosing confidential information to allow mental health professionals to find a solution that is ethically and legally sound and able to be recognised as such by external authorities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Confidentiality for mental health professionals
• ISBN: 1-921513-43-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459966303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II