Divided Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case Approach To Mental Health Ethics - Softcover

Reiser, Stanley Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521318904 ISBN 13: 9780521318907

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

Ethical decision making in the context of conflicting values takes on a fresh immediacy when the self itself is in conflict. Divided Staffs, Divided Selves: A Case Approach to Mental Health Ethics brings the immediacy of a clinical case conference to a wide range of students and clinicians. The book provides both clinical case material and a method for engaging in a dialogue choices in the mental health care field. The essays that introduce the volume place the ethical problems of treating mentally ill people in the context of the health care ethics movement and traditions of ethical decision making. The individual cases arise from clinical and consultative experiences. This case material will serve as the basis for learning and reflection by clinicians in interaction with their colleagues, and it also will be especially valuable to students studying ethical concepts who do not have access to real-life cases or problems.

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Review:

"The book is an absolute must for those who would like to initate a teaching program in mental health ethics and is recommemded most highly to anyone with an interest in this growing field." General Hospital Psychiatry

Book Description:

Ethical decision making in the context of conflicting values takes on a fresh immediacy when the self itself is in conflict. This book brings the immediacy of a clinical case conference to a wide range of students and clinicians. The book provides both clinical case material and a method for engaging in a dialogue choices in the mental health care field.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0521318904
• ISBN 13: 9780521318907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166