| Description |
250 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Chapter Outline -- Health Care Ethics for Psychologists: A Casebook -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Crisis and Emergency Care -- 1a. Do the rules still apply? Crisis response to 9/11. -- 1b. Provider conflicts in managing mild traumatic brain injury. -- 1c. Professional boundaries and the unwanted psychologist. -- Chapter Two: Acute Care -- 2a. Managing documentation in the medical record: The impact of HIPAA -- guidelines. -- 2b. Truth telling: The disclosure of emotionally difficult information. -- 2c. Malingering and the management of chronic pain. -- 2d. Overriding treatment refusals during early recovery from catastrophic injury. -- Chapter Three: Inpatient Rehabilitation -- 3a. Opportunities and challenges in using nonstandardized testing. -- 3b. The overwhelmed psychologist's responsibility towards very sick patients. -- 3c. Using placebo and deception in treatment. -- 3d. When the team and family disagree: Incorporating family values into treatment. -- 3e. Accommodating questionable patient preferences. -- 3f. Responding to mixed messages about treatment refusal. -- Chapter Four: Outpatient Services -- 4a. Managing a patient's risk-taking behavior. -- 4b. Resolving requests for third party observers. -- 4c. Responding to patients working the system. -- 4d. Return to work after catastrophic injury: Implications of the Americans with -- Disabilities Act. -- Chapter Five: Sub-acute and Long-Term Care -- 5a. Serving the patient who is totally incapacitated. -- 5b. Difficult behavior and the perception of incompetence. -- 5c. Assent in decision making and the role of same sex partners. -- 5d. Quality of life and the right to die |
| Summary |
"Health Care Ethics for Psychologists: A Casebook explores the ethical questions encountered most often by practitioners in health care settings. Ethical challenges occur almost routinely in health care. Issues of informed consent, respect for patients' dignity and confidentiality, the balance between patient and family rights, and billing for services under managed care are just a few of the topics that challenge psychologists to uphold their ethical obligations across the health care continuum. This casebook offers a real-life view of ethical situations as they unfold, including case-by-case consideration of critical background information, key stakeholders, the direct relevance of specific American Psychological Association principles and standards, and suggested steps to resolve ethical issues |
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Case examples in settings from the emergency room to long-term care vividly illustrate the complexities of ethical dilemmas, and case commentaries helpfully explicate the quandaries presented. These detailed cases allow the reader to acquire a true understanding of the patients' specific circumstances and the challenges to clinical decision making. This dynamic view affords readers the opportunity to critically evaluate the resolutions offered or, alternately, to craft their own resolutions. This casebook will be required reading for psychologists and other mental health practitioners working in health care settings."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Ovid PsycBooks |
| Subject |
Medical ethics -- Case studies.
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Medical care -- Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies.
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Psychologists -- Professional ethics -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Bush, Shane S., 1965-
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Kerkhoff, Thomas R.
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American Psychological Association.
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Ovid Technologies, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2004003104 |
| ISBN |
1591471524 |
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