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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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Libro |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA
Cambridge University Press
[2019]
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En: | Año: 2019 |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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Sumario: | 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. |
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Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Feb 2019) |
Descripción Física: | 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 170 Seiten) |
ISBN: | 9781108377171 |
DOI: | 10.1017/9781108377171 |