Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader - Paperback

Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader - Paperback

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Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader - Paperback

Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader - Paperback

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by Dominic a. Sisti (Editor), Arthur L. Caplan (Editor), Hila Rimon-Greenspan (Editor)

Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.

This book 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. Although debates over these issues are ongoing, there are few comprehensive resources for addressing such dilemmas in the practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work, and other behavioral and mental health care professions. This book meets that need, providing foundational background for undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses.

Topics include central questions such as evolving views of the morality and pathology of deviant behavior; patient competence and the decision to refuse treatment; recognizing and treating people who have suffered trauma; addiction as illness; the therapist's responsibility to report dangerousness despite patient confidentiality; and boundaries for the therapist's interaction with patients outside of therapy, whether in the form of tennis games, gift-giving, or social media contact. For the most part the selections address contemporary issues in contemporary terms, but the book also offers a few historic or classic essays, including Thomas S. Szasz's controversial 1971 article "The Ethics of Addiction."

Contributors
Laura Weiss Roberts, Frederic G. Reamer, Charles P. O'Brien, and Thomas McLellan

Author Biography

Hila Rimon-Greenspan is a researcher at Bizchut, the Israeli Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities.

Number of Pages: 422
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: September 20, 2013

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