Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law

By Thomas G. Gutheil and Paul S. Appelbaum

Book Overview

Thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition, this award-winning handbook gives mental health professionals authoritative guidance on how the law affects their clinical practice. Each chapter presents case examples of legal issues that arise in practice, clearly explains the governing legal rules, their rationale, and their clinical impact, and offers concrete action guides to navigating clinico-legal dilemmas. This edition addresses crucial recent developments including new federal rules protecting patients' privacy, regulations minimizing use of seclusion and restraint, liability risks associated with newer psychiatric medications, malpractice risks in forensic psychiatry, and new structured assessment tools for violence risk, suicidality, and decisional capacity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0683002376
• ISBN13: 9780683002379
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Superb!

If you're looking for a book that explains in simple terms many forensic issues relevant to a forensic or physician's practice, this is it. Yes, this is comprehensive yet very easy and enjoyable to read. The authors' expertise and savvy are evident in every page. Highly recommended!

New third edition just out!

This out-of-print book has been replaced by the hot-off-the-presses, completely updated NEW THIRD EDITION from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Bristling with managed-care driven risk management advice, and addressing recovered memory, new technology and information security in the eletroinic age, this is still the book to keep you and your practice safe!