Mental Health Ethics

The Human Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-57100-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 691 g

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of Conduct and other forms of professional guidance, there are no easy answers to most human problems. Mental Health Ethics encourages readers to heighten their awareness of the key ethical dilemmas found in mainstream contemporary mental health practice.

This text provides an overview of traditional and contemporary ethical perspectives and critically examines a range of ethical and moral challenges present in contemporary ‘psychiatric-mental’ health services. Offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective, it includes six parts, each with their own introduction, summary and set of ethical challenges, covering:

- fundamental ethical principles;

- legal issues;

- specific challenges for different professional groups;

- working with different service user groups;

- models of care and treatment;

- recovery and human rights perspectives.

Providing detailed consideration of issues and dilemmas, Mental Health Ethics helps all mental health professionals keep people at the centre of the services they offer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, Phil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Fachpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part1: Ethics and Mental Health 1. Ethics: In Search of the Good Life 2. The Keystone of Psychiatric Ethics 3. Who Cares Any More, Anyway? Part 2: The Professional Context 4. The Psychiatrist 5. The Mental Health Nurse 6. The Social Worker 7. The Clinical Psychologist 8. The Therapist 9. The Occupational Therapist 10. The Chaplain Part 3: Care and Treatment 11. Psychiatric Diagnosis 12. Professional Relationships 13. Restraint 14. ECT and Consent 15. Medication Part 4: The Human Context 16. Acute Care 17. Forensic Care 18. Addictions 19. Younger People in Mental Health Care 20. Older People in Mental Health Care 21. Race and Culture 22. Suicide Part 5: Legal Issues 23. Mental Health Law in England and Wales 24. Mental Health Law in Ireland 25. Mental Health Law in Scotland 26. Advance Directives 27. The Insanity Defence and Diminished Responsibility Part 6: Ideologal Issues 28. Talk about Recovery 29. Illusion, Individuality and Autonomy 30. Ethics: The Elephant in the Room

Über Autor(innen)

Phil Barker is a psychotherapist in private practice and a Director of Clan Unity International, a mental health recovery consultancy. He is also Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing, University of Dundee, UK.