Mental Health Ethics: The Human Context

ISBN-13: 9780415571005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 378 str.

Barker, Phil

Opis

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."

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.