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Health care ethics for psychologists : a casebook

Title: Health care ethics for psychologists : a casebook / Stephanie L. Hanson, Thomas R. Kerkhoff, Shane S. Bush.
Author: Hanson, Stephanie L.
Publication: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2005.

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ix, 250 pages; 27 cm

Summary

"Health Care Ethics for Psychologists: A Casebook explores the ethical questions encountered most often by practitioners in health care settings. Ethical challenges occur almost routinely in health care. Issues of informed consent, respect for patients' dignity and confidentiality, the balance between patient and family rights, and billing for services under managed care are just a few of the topics that challenge psychologists to uphold their ethical obligations across the health care continuum. This casebook offers a real-life view of ethical situations as they unfold, including case-by-case consideration of critical background information, key stakeholders, the direct relevance of specific American Psychological Association principles and standards, and suggested steps to resolve ethical issues. Case examples in settings from the emergency room to long-term care vividly illustrate the complexities of ethical dilemmas, and case commentaries helpfully explicate the quandaries presented. These detailed cases allow the reader to acquire a true understanding of the patients' specific circumstances and the challenges to clinical decision making. This dynamic view affords readers the opportunity to critically evaluate the resolutions offered or, alternately, to craft their own resolutions. This casebook will be required reading for psychologists and other mental health practitioners working in health care settings."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Case Reports
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-233) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: Values and the Practice of Psychology -- Crisis and Emergency Care -- Do the Rules Still Apply? Crisis Response to 9/11 -- Provider Conflicts in Managing Mild Traumatic Brain Injury -- Professional Boundaries and the Unwanted Psychologist -- Acute Care -- Managing Documentation in the Medical Record: The Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Guidelines -- Truth Telling: The Disclosure of Emotionally Difficult Information -- Malingering and the Management of Chronic Pain -- Overriding Treatment Refusals During Early Recovery From Catastrophic Injury -- Inpatient Rehabilitation -- Opportunities and Challenges in Using Nonstandardized Testing -- The Overwhelmed Psychologist's Responsibility Toward Very Sick Patients -- Using Placebos and Deception in Treatment -- When the Team and Family Disagree: Incorporating Family Beliefs and Values Into Treatment -- Accommodating Questionable Patient Preferences -- Responding to Mixed Messages About Treatment Refusal (Continuation of the Fergus MacGonagle Series) -- Outpatient Services -- Managing a Patient's Risk-Taking Behavior -- Resolving Requests for Third-Party Observers -- Responding to Patients Working the System -- Return to Work After Catastrophic Injury: Implications of the Americans With Disabilities Act (Conclusion of the Fergus) MacGonagle Series) -- Subacute and Long-Term Care -- Serving the Patient Who Is Totally Incapacitated -- Difficult Behavior and the Perception of Incompetence -- Assent in Decision Making and the Role of Same-Sex Partners.

ISBN

1591471524
9781591471523

LCCN

2004003104

OCLC

ocm54414626
54414626
SCSB-9695370

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library