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Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Allen R. Dyer, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Contributors | p. xix |
Introduction to the Concise Guides Series | p. xxi |
Preface | p. xxiii |
Ethics: Principles and Professionalism | p. 1 |
Traditional Principles of the Clinical Professions | p. 3 |
Professionalism and the Evolution of Bioethical Principles | p. 5 |
Principles, Rules, and Contextualism | p. 10 |
References | p. 16 |
Clinical Decision-Making and Ethics Skills | p. 19 |
Ethics Skills in Mental Health Care | p. 20 |
A Strategy for Ethical Clinical Decision Making | p. 22 |
Clinical Indications | p. 24 |
Patient Preferences | p. 24 |
Quality of Life | p. 26 |
Socioeconomic or External Factors | p. 26 |
Summary | p. 27 |
Case Scenarios | p. 27 |
References | p. 28 |
The Psychotherapeutic Relationship | p. 31 |
Professionalism in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship | p. 32 |
The Nature of the Psychotherapeutic Encounter | p. 34 |
Case Scenarios | p. 42 |
References | p. 43 |
The Exploitation Index | p. 45 |
Informed Consent and Decisional Capacity | p. 51 |
Elements of Informed Consent | p. 51 |
The Therapeutic Relationship | p. 51 |
Information | p. 52 |
Decisional Capacity | p. 54 |
Voluntarism | p. 57 |
Differing Standards for Consent | p. 59 |
Emergency or Acute Care | p. 60 |
Care for Chronic Illness | p. 62 |
Routine and Preventive Care | p. 64 |
Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making | p. 64 |
Examples of Empirical Studies Related to Consent | p. 66 |
Constructive Approaches to the Process of Consent | p. 69 |
Case Scenarios | p. 71 |
References | p. 72 |
Cases for Discussion | p. 75 |
Ethical Use of Power in High-Risk Situations | p. 77 |
Power and Vulnerability in Therapeutic Work | p. 78 |
Ethical Considerations in High-Risk Situations | p. 79 |
Suicide, Violent Behavior, and Mental Illness | p. 80 |
Ethical Use of Power in Situations Involving Potential for Self-Harm and Harm to Others | p. 82 |
Prediction | p. 82 |
Duty to Intervene | p. 84 |
Duty to Warn and Duty to Protect | p. 86 |
Strengths and Accountability of Mentally Ill Persons | p. 87 |
Ethical Use of Power and Treatment Refusal | p. 88 |
Ethical Use of Coercive Pressure in Mental Health Care | p. 90 |
Endeavoring to Use Power Ethically in Mental Health Care | p. 92 |
Case Scenarios | p. 94 |
References | p. 94 |
Confidentiality and Truth Telling | p. 97 |
Examples of Empirical Studies | p. 99 |
Confidentiality and Truth-Telling Dilemmas | p. 103 |
Responding to Confidentiality and Truth-Telling Dilemmas | p. 107 |
Case Scenarios | p. 115 |
References | p. 115 |
Caring for Children | p. 119 |
Professional Competence | p. 119 |
Clinical Treatment Issues | p. 121 |
Consent | p. 121 |
Confidentiality | p. 123 |
Practice Dilemmas | p. 125 |
Protecting Children and Reporting Child Abuse | p. 127 |
Research | p. 128 |
Consent | p. 129 |
Risk | p. 130 |
Dilemmas | p. 131 |
Conclusions | p. 132 |
Case Scenarios | p. 133 |
References | p. 134 |
Caring for People With Addictions | p. 137 |
Prevalence and Seriousness of Addiction and Comorbid Disorders | p. 137 |
Stigma | p. 139 |
Parity | p. 141 |
Personal Responsibility | p. 142 |
Criminal Justice Involvement, Truth Telling, and Confidentiality | p. 143 |
"First, Do No Harm" | p. 145 |
Harm Reduction | p. 146 |
Pseudoaddiction and Pain Management | p. 147 |
Empirical Ethics Studies | p. 148 |
Case Scenarios | p. 149 |
References | p. 150 |
Caring for "Difficult" Patients | p. 153 |
Recognizing "Difficult" Patients | p. 153 |
Prevalence and Attributes of "Difficult" Patients in Medical and Psychiatric Settings | p. 156 |
Understanding "Difficult" as a Clinical Sign | p. 158 |
Identifying Ethical Pitfalls in the Care of Difficult Patients | p. 159 |
Responding Therapeutically | p. 161 |
Case Scenarios | p. 165 |
References | p. 166 |
Caring for People in Small Communities | p. 167 |
Ethical Dilemmas of Small Communities | p. 168 |
Overlapping Relationships, Conflicting Roles, and Altered Therapeutic Boundaries | p. 168 |
Confidentiality | p. 173 |
Cultural Dimensions of Care | p. 174 |
Limited Access to Clinical Care, Mental Health, and Ethics Resources | p. 175 |
Stresses of Small-Community Caregivers | p. 178 |
Constructive Approaches | p. 179 |
Case Scenarios | p. 183 |
References | p. 183 |
Caring for People at End of Life | p. 185 |
Six Domains for Careful Attention | p. 185 |
Diagnosis | p. 187 |
Comfort | p. 187 |
Capacity | p. 188 |
Clarity | p. 189 |
Controversy | p. 190 |
Collaboration | p. 191 |
Emergent Ethical Questions in End-of-Life Care | p. 192 |
Case Scenarios | p. 194 |
References | p. 194 |
Missoula-Vitas Quality of Life Index | p. 197 |
Values History Form | p. 203 |
Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Genetics | p. 207 |
The Nature of Genetic Information | p. 208 |
Informed Consent in Psychiatric Genetics | p. 208 |
Confidentiality | p. 210 |
Considerations of Justice | p. 211 |
Empirical Studies on Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Genetics | p. 213 |
Genetic Counseling for Psychiatric Disorders | p. 214 |
Case Scenarios | p. 216 |
References | p. 217 |
Ethical Issues in Managed and Evolving Systems of Care | p. 219 |
Ethical Principles in Managed and Evolving Systems of Care | p. 220 |
Evolving Systems of Care for Mental Illness | p. 224 |
Resolving Conflicts Between the Needs of Individuals and Populations | p. 226 |
Case Scenarios | p. 229 |
References | p. 230 |
Ethical Issues in Clinician Health | p. 233 |
The Wounded Healer | p. 236 |
The Path to Wellness | p. 238 |
The VIP Syndrome | p. 238 |
The Impaired Professional | p. 239 |
Clinician Health and Training | p. 240 |
Case Scenarios | p. 241 |
References | p. 242 |
Ethical Issues in Clinical Training | p. 243 |
Special Ethical Challenges of Clinical Training | p. 245 |
Empirical Studies on Ethics and Clinical Training | p. 249 |
Educational Strategies for Ethics Education in Clinical Training | p. 253 |
Case Scenarios | p. 257 |
References | p. 257 |
Ethical Issues in Psychiatric Research | p. 261 |
Design, Methods, and the Need for Ethics Safeguards | p. 264 |
Ethics Safeguards | p. 266 |
Institutional Review and Data and Safety Monitoring | p. 266 |
Informed Consent | p. 268 |
Advance, Alternative, and Collaborative Decision Making | p. 271 |
Additional Expert and Peer Review Processes | p. 272 |
Confidentiality Protections | p. 273 |
Expertise, Integrity, and Conflicts of Interest | p. 273 |
Special Groups and Potentially Vulnerable Populations | p. 276 |
Animal Research | p. 280 |
Practical Efforts Regarding the Ethical Conduct of Research | p. 281 |
Case Scenarios | p. 282 |
References | p. 282 |
Roberts Research Protocol Ethics Assessment Tool (RePEAT) | p. 285 |
Health Care Ethics Committees | p. 295 |
The Rise of Health Care Ethics Committees | p. 295 |
Historical Background: Some Notable Faulty Medical Research Practices | p. 296 |
Early Forms of Hospital Ethics Committees | p. 298 |
Where Are Ethics Committees Today? | p. 300 |
What Do Health Care Ethics Committees Do? | p. 301 |
Ethics Education | p. 301 |
Policy Formulation and Review | p. 302 |
Case Consultation | p. 303 |
Who Should Be on a Health Care Ethics Committee? | p. 306 |
Professional Association Ethics Committees | p. 309 |
Summary | p. 310 |
References | p. 311 |
Cases for Discussion | p. 313 |
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