Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader

By: Charles E. Rosenberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026201968X
• ISBN13: 9780262019682
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher