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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sadoff, Robert L.,
• Baird, John A

Titel

Ethical issues in forensic psychiatry : minimizing harm [electronic resource]

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Contributors; Part One Ethics in Forensic Psychiatry; 1 Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry in the United States; 2 Minimizing Harm: A Perspective from Forensic Psychiatry in the United Kingdom; 3 Mental Health and Human Rights in Forensic Psychiatry in the European Union; Part Two The Practice of Forensic Psychiatry; 4 The Forensic Psychiatric Examination; 5 The Forensic Psychiatric Report; 6 Expert Psychiatric Testimony
• Part Three Vulnerable Populations in the Justice System7 Children and Adolescents; 8 The Elderly, the Mentally Retarded, and the Severely Mentally Disabled; 9 Victims and Predators of Sexual Violence; 10 Immigrants: A Vulnerable Population; 11 Prisoners and Death Row Inmates; 12 Forensic Psychiatric Experts: Risks and Liability; 13 Risks of Harm to the Forensic Expert: the Legal Perspective; Index
• Ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry are based on the concept of first do no harm. However, this cannot, and does not, apply to forensic cases where there is no doctor-patient relationship and the forensic psychiatrist may indeed cause harm to the examinee. In this book, Robert Sadoff analyzes the ethical issues affecting forensic psychiatric practice, especially those promulgated by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Within those guidelines, he looks at individual bias, vulnerability of the examinee, and potential harm to the mental health professional. The book
• English