Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas Clinical-ethical dilemmas can be defined as clinical problems in which all feasible solutions require breaking a moral rule. Whether to continue painful aggressive treatment of an incompetent,…
The Hospital Ethics Committee and the Ethics Consultant
The Hospital Ethics Committee and the Ethics Consultant Hospital ethics committees have evolved over the past several decades to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of ethical problems arising…
Clinical Ethics and the Law
Clinical Ethics and the Law The ideal standards of medical conduct are dictated by medical ethics. A parallel and frequently overlapping standard of medical conduct is that regulated by the…
Professional Ethics and Professionalism
Professional Ethics and Professionalism Neurologists, like all physicians and all learned professionals, are bound by a set of ethical duties to those whom they serve professionally. Physicians’ ethical duties are…
Ethical Practice
Ethical Practice The rules resulting from moral theory must be translated into practical concepts to be directly applicable at the bedside and in the clinic. This chapter introduces the concepts…
Ethical Theory
Ethical Theory Neurologists routinely encounter ethical problems in everyday clinical practice. To resolve these clinical-ethical problems, usually they draw on their medical experience, clinical judgment, and moral intuitions rather than…
▪ Child Psychiatry and the Law
▪ Child Psychiatry and the Law This chapter provides an overview of the interface of child and adolescent psychiatry and the law. These issues arise in many different ways and…
▪ Consultation Liaison: Consultation in Pediatrics
▪ Consultation Liaison: Consultation in Pediatrics GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND MODELS OF CONSULTATION Chronic medical illness increases the risk for psychiatric conditions in children and adolescents, with rates two- to fourfold…
▪ Psychiatric Emergencies
▪ Psychiatric Emergencies Psychiatric emergencies in children and adolescents become more common with age (but can occur with children of any age). Their urgency depends on the nature of the…
▪ Treatment Programs: A Continuum of Approaches
▪ Treatment Programs: A Continuum of Approaches Current approaches to delivery of mental health services to children and adolescents encompass a range of services from community-based clinics and private care…
