Citation

Bernet W. Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 1995; 23(3): 367-374.

Affiliation

Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8845527

Abstract

Mental health professionals sometimes excessively follow rules and regulations to the point of neglecting or even injuring their clients. Five vignettes are presented that illustrate how this problem might occur in clinical or administrative decisions. The vignettes involve confidentiality, informed consent, reporting of sexual abuse, and other issues. Several specific recommendations are made that emphasize common sense and clinical reasoning, rather than relying merely on legal reasoning.

Language: en