CONCISE GUIDE TO ETHICS IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE

Ethics: principles and professionalism. Clinical decision-making and ethics skills. The psychotherapeutic relationship. Informed consent and decisional capacity. Ethical use of power in high-risk situations. Confidentiality and truth telling. Caring for children. Caring for people with addictions. Caring for "difficult" patients. Caring for people in small communities. Caring for people at end of life. Ethical issues in psychiatric genetics. Ethical issues in managed and evolving systems of care. Ethical issues in clinician health. Ethical issues in clinical training. Ethical issues in psychiatric research. Health care ethics committees. Appendix A: glossary. Appendix B: additional readings. Index.