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Ethical Reasoning for Mental Health Professionals addresses a fundamental need of ethics training in psychology and counseling: the development of reasoning skills to resolve the complex professional ethical issues that arise. Author Gary G. Ford provides readers with a background in ethical reasoning and introduces them to an easy-to-follow eight step model of ethical decision making. ... Read more

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Great book
This book is wonderful if you are going into the field of counseling/clinical psychology. It discusses the Ethical Codes of the field and the ambiguities that psychologists have to face during therapy sessions with clients.

Ethics and Cultural Competency
This is a decent book.It really helps clarify some of the thornier issues in the APA and ACA ethical standards.Great scenarios to contemplate.

Not recommended
I think it's one thing to read about ethics, quite different to encounter them in everyday life.It's easy to look through a book and say "Yes this all makes sense" when it's down in type.I read this book thinking it would open a world of ethical dilemmas for me and allow me to come up with my own ways to process and apply them to my job.However, it was just words.

In the Mental Health industry, it is my belief that generalizing ethics can be very dangerous.What is good for one is not necessarily good for another.Although this book outlines the process, one cannot truly know the answers to ethical questions into they step into the process in reality.

I really didn't gain anything from this book, short of a headache as the print seemed exceptionally small to me.

Reasoning Isn't Enough
I actually reviewed this book for PsycCRITIQUES, a journal of the American Psychological Association.The publishers took a quote out of context from this review and put these words on their web page:"The first Golden Age of psychology ethics texts is here..."In fact, this sentence had NO RELATIONSHIP to Ford's book.The book is not a bad review of the ethics codes of psychology and counseling, but it is inadequate as a text because it ignores the emotional element in ethical reasoning.Ford chooses not to incorporate the research about how ethical reasoning is positively influenced by awareness of our emotions. ... Read more

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As a psychotherapist, what do you need to know about the law?How does the legal system support (or fail to support) your work, or the delivery of mental helath services generally?What can you do to make use of the law and legal system, to improve your practice and protect yourself?

Filling a significant gap in the social work literature, this bookpresents clearly and comprehensively what mental health and other direct practice professionals need to know to respond to the legal issues that surround practice.

The book covers a broad range of topics, including providing testimony, responding to subpoenas, dealing with an attorney, influencing the legal system, and understanding the legal side of the business of psychotherapy.The author also discisses various direct practice and human service issues, incorporating some of the everyday legal issues these professionals encounter.

Through cases and case vignettes the author illustrates the legal processes relevant to clinicians' professional lives, and suggests 'alternative behaviours for clinicians that would satisfy legal reqirements, yet remain within sound practice.'

This book is predicated on the notion that good clinical practice involves more than just an ability to do the work with clients in the office.There is a growing need for psychotherapists to have legal knowledge related to their practice due to the rise of managed care, the increase in family law litigation, the explosion of lawsuits against professionals, and the growing awareness of the need to practice within defined standards of care.

The author writes, 'Unless the legal system is demystified, psychotherapists will continue to be intimidated and fail to take actions to reduce their vulnerability to lawsuits.Just as distressing is the idea that clinicians will continue to remain outside of the legal system and not take advantage of opportunities to influence the development of mental health law.'This book will help demystify the legal system, thereby empowering psychotherapists to work with it and within it.

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Bryant, To A Great Book.
This was one of the truely great books I have read about legal issues.My coleage, A.C also loved it.This would be a great book for a college professor. ... Read more

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Sue Mahan provides an up-to-date, accessible discussion of the issues relevant to the debate on crack cocaine, crime and women. Following an in-depth overview, the book offers a broad and informed perspective on the legal, lifestyle and treatment issues central to women's addiction to crack cocaine. With sensitivity and compassion, the author also addresses the tragic consequences of children born to addicted mothers, stressing the importance for policy and resources to focus on the mutual well-being of mother and child. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1153 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: MSMA mulling proposals to improve legal, insurance climate.(Health Care Mississippi)
Author: Lynne W. Jeter
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 25Issue: 38Page: B8(1)

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With the law impinging more and more on psychiatric practice, this invaluable reference enables practitioners to function confidently and effectively by explaining the legal and ethical aspects of their work. Deals with practical decisions involving legal ramifications that psychiatrists are called upon to make in their daily practice. Contains relevant background information on these matters so these decision makers can be better informed. ... Read more

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From the mid 1990s to the present day, agricultural biotechnology--GM crops and foods--has been the focus of debate and conflict in many European countries. Contrasting views of risks and benefits, trust in science and regulation, the understanding of science, media coverage, and mobilization of the public by civil society groups--all have been cited as drivers of public opinion. Designed in part to allay public concerns about GM agriculture, a European moratorium led to a new regulatory framework. The long running controversy is a signal that the public’s view cannot be ignored in the development and implementation of new technologies arising out of genomics. Yet, agricultural biotechnologies are but one development in this area. Genetic testing and the uses of genetic information, the cloning human cells and tissues, and transgenic animals are potentially no less challenging for the public and regulators alike.

This volume, by an international group of social scientists from North America, Europe, and Japan, presents a series of comparative perspectives on the social, ethical, and legal implications of genomics. The aim is to capture lessons from the controversies of the 1990s and to raise the level of debate on the societal implications of new developments in genomics. ... Read more

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Mental health professionals increasingly look towards problem prevention at the earliest stage of personal development, yet intervention at that stage is extremely complicated. The difficulties of balancing the conflicting rights of the child (to self-determination), the parents (to raise children in privacy and in their own manner), and of the State (to step in when parents or children fail to meet some socially desirable standard) form the basis of this volume. Its description of the interaction between mental health and legal interests, and how they impinge upon children -- areas of rapidly-growing concern to mental health workers -- represents the state-of-the-art. Four key topics are tackled: the relationship between children and their families; the health care system; the juvenile justice system; and the educational system. The result is a comprehensive survey of current empirical research, professional practice, and legal policy. In addition, the authors have given provocative suggestions on which direction the field will take -- and on which direction they think it should take. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dermatology Nursing, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3718 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Patients who require treatment for complications stemming from skin and wound care conditions represent a significant and costly clinical problem in the health care arena. An innovative approach used to manage these patients is utilization and employment of the specialty trained wound, ostomy, and continence (WOC) nurse. A review of the literature supports the role of the WOC nurse in providing quality care, minimizing the expenditure of health care dollars, and overseeing the use of pressure ulcer and wound care guidelines so that litigious events may be avoided.

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Title: The WOC Nurse: Economic, Quality of Life, and Legal Benefits.(wound, ostomy, and continence nurse)
Author: Melissa W. Kaufman
Publication: Dermatology Nursing (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: 13Issue: 3Page: 215

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Legal Order and Mental Order critically appraises the current laws -as enshrined in the Indian Penal Code- relating to the mentally ill and the impact they have on people with mental illness. ... Read more

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This work addresses the complexity of the WTO¡¦s August 30,. 2003 decision on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. It provides an explanation of the decision and model legal texts for the required notifications to the WTO and for the amendments of their patent law that most developing countries will need to pass in order to incorporate the decision in their domestic legal framework. ... Read more

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Our two greatest end-of-life fears are unnecessary prolonged pain and suffering, and mere existence in a state of total indignity and dependency such as in Alzheimer's dementia. Uninformed, some choose to die prematurely; others, violently; a few risk imprisonment by mercy killing. Often their lament is, If only Physician-Assisted Suicide were legal. Yet there is a legal alternative: Voluntary Refusal of Food & Fluid -- a truly peaceful way to hasten dying by dehydration. It may take 7 to 14 days butit allows for the exchange of healing goodbyes with loved ones who can forever be sure it was the patient did not changed his/her mind. It may be the only option for those suffering from advanced dementia. Knowing how to control thirst is essential. (The author fasted twice.) The book-within-a-book format contains poignant memoirs, cartoon, and guides that consider the emotional, practical, clinical, legal, moral, ethical, religious, spiritual, and political aspects of a subject that will affect us all. ... Read more

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excellent help
The Best Way To Say Goodbye & My Way Cards by Stanley A. Terman, PhD, MD is a sound guide to assuring that you get to choose the way you wish to die, legally...better and more easily understood than a living will.The cards have cartoon pictures of each situation and a question to consider about health on the back. The choices are easy to place into stacks of yes, no, maybe and then to carefully decide which ones to place for your family if the time comes when you are too sick or mentally unable to make your own decisions about not prolonging your life through artificial means.Everyone wants to die peacefully and without unnecessary difficulties for their loved ones. There have been many cases in the news from time to time about people who are kept for years in vegetative state, or about others who committed suicide, either aided or unaided. The legal implications of both are tremendous, so a better, legal way is guided in this book: How to choose now, while you are healthy and of sound mind, the legal way to die a pleasant and peaceful death when the time comes, and how to explain this choice to your family and doctor in clearly understood terms, and how to make it binding.Everything from legal and medical and religious aspects of dying with dignity are covered in this excellent guide, many questions are answered, and many real-life experiences are related. This is a book which every family should have and use.
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This book covers 64 wide-ranging topics related to HIV and AIDS, in a concise format that is easy to use for lawyers and people without legal training. It should be an invaluable resource for lawyers, policy makers and other practitioners with an interest in countries' responses to HIV. The book explains how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good public health programs and responsible personal behaviors. Each topic provides a concise summary of the key legal and policy issues, provides relevant "practice examples" (often citing from actual laws and regulations) and offers a selective list of references for each topic that may be consulted for more detailed information. ... Read more

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Research in the mid-1980s on the effects of prenatal drug abuse characterized cocaine-exposed children as moody, inconsolable, less socially interactive and less able to bond than other children. It was concluded that these conditions were irreversible. However, methodological problems in these early studies, combined with the fact that cocaine-using mothers abuse other drugs as well, has left the research and public health communities uncertain as to the cause and effect relationship between cocaine use and pre//postnatal consequences.

Cocaine-Exposed Infants examines what is known about the problem and unravels some of the contradictions in the literature. The book also explores, in depth, the media frenzy over 'c ... Read more