From courtroom to clinic: legal cases that changed mental health treatment

Why do present-day mental health professionals practice the way that they do? Over the past fifty years, a number of landmark court holdings have changed such basic principles as what material is confidential, how civil commitment and involuntary treatment are conducted, and when a therapist has a d...

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Contributors: Ash, Peter (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press [2019]
In:Year: 2019
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Keywords:
Mental health laws > United States
Insanity (law) > United States
Forensic Psychiatry > United States
Mental health laws ; United States
Insanity (Law) ; United States
Forensic psychiatry ; United States
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Summary:Why do present-day mental health professionals practice the way that they do? Over the past fifty years, a number of landmark court holdings have changed such basic principles as what material is confidential, how civil commitment and involuntary treatment are conducted, and when a therapist has a duty to protect the public from a dangerous patient. Unlike most legal texts, this volume explores these complex principles through the human stories of the litigants involved.
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Feb 2019)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 170 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108377171
DOI:10.1017/9781108377171