ethical issues in mental health case studies

... Washington D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999. Module 7: Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health 159 MODULE 7 Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health ... placing those who investigate such risks in a position of conflicting interests? Module 7: Ethical Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health 186 Case Study 4: Part 3 In arguing ... environmental -health risks. Virtually all of the case studies related to environmental and occupational health can be addressed by examining some of the readings selected in the case studies...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... in the context of ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. He writes, ‘Life-sustaining treatment implies that treatment is being given in order to maintain or create the best possible ... now face a growing number of controversial issues involving human reproduction. To illustrate the variety of issues, consider the following three scenarios. In the Wrst case, involving a pregnant ... donor insemination are outlined. Elina Hemminki (Chapter 12), a Finnish epidemiologist and health tech- nology assessment expert, approaches antenatal screening from an evidence- based medicine...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... large and highly informative studies as the Framingham Heart Study, the Nurses HealthStudy,andsoon.Inthosecases,thelargesamplesinvolvemorethanathousand patients. One might say in psychiatry that ... (Ghaemi et al., 2007). The clinical lore is that this drug is ineffective in this setting. Nineteen patients were used in total (half drug and half placebo) in a double-blind RCT, and we showed benefit. ... whether there might be any confounding bias in this observational study. Readers should begin to assess this issue by putting themselves in the place of the treating clinicians. Why would one stop...

Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2012, 09:06

... which 15 3Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning 9 Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning Francáoise ShenWeld Centre for Medical Ethics, UCL Medical School, London, UK Introduction Although ... replaced in a uterus. Finally, the report concludes with a clear condemnation of reproductive cloning, and calls for fully informing the public and stimulating debate. 15 7Ethical issues in embryo interventions ... pertinent. Indeed if dignity has to be deWned in any essential manner, as it must be if enshrined in international declarations, it is the unique quality of all human beings, also recognized in...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... and developmental morbidity in children less than 26 weeks gestation at 2.5 years of age. Pediatric Research 45: 259A. 34 5Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment interest at ... 21.1. Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates – in the presence of uncertainty. light of the best scientiWc knowledge available. The future for the infant ... clear-cut. In the US and in some UK hospitals (including St Mary’s and Great Ormond Street in London), multidisciplinary institutional ethics committees have been set up to review cases where these issues...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... shared decision-making. Patients should control the amount and timing of information. I submit that in the case of anonymized testing, and in the case of ‘routine’ voluntary named testing, consent ... Opinion in Infectious Diseases 12: 21–6. UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998). Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection ... contravene existing guide- lines – in particular, the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, 1996) and the international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involv- ing human subjects...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... other factors being equal, the case for FTPP in high order multiple gestations is compelling, the case for FTPP in triplet gestations is less compelling, and the case for FTPP in twin gestations is ... the administration of infertility drugs, if ultrasound monitoring indicated maturation of multiple follicle cells (Manier, 1998: p. 1). At that point, clinicians might have declined to administer ... have moral standing, so long as women give their full, informed consent to the procedure. In cases involving twins and triplets, FTPP is not comparably justiWable because it does not increase the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... what sense of best? Clinical best? Moral best? Tensions between medicine and nursing are increasingly coming to the fore in the field of health care research. In the past, says Blackburn in chapter 5, ... discovery in the GEOFFREY HUNT 11 Noddings’ work might be expected to have something important to say for nursing ethics. She distinguishes between natural caring and ethical caring and maintains ... questions. But Noddings recognised that prior conditions must be met for ethical caring. Hanford speaks of nursing having to practise in a ‘chronically ethically diminished state’. Nursing administration...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health set out the fundamental problems with trying to measure the results of mental health services in this way in their Policy Paper 4 (Sainsbury Centre for Mental ... mental health is Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care (Department of Health 2005b). This includes three building blocks: · better information · community engagement · more ... robust assessments: · communicating with the service user and gathering information from what is said and from behaviour · gathering information from existing records · gathering information from other agencies · gathering...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... research are exploring basic questions pertaining to mechanisms of disease and healing posed by nonorthodox medicine. Postgraduate training programs in integrative medicine have been founded in affiliation ... treatments used in mental health care, in the context of accumulating evidence supporting claims of efficacy and safety of certain nonconventional treatments, and unre- solved and in some cases increasing ... with several prominent medical xxiv Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care a growing interest in the clinical use of these natural substances in both medicine and psychiatry....

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... varying levels of training in mental health. Some are highly qualifi ed mental health professionals and of- ten train other providers in identifying and treating mental disorders. In other instances, ... settings  Nurses in mental health settings  Nurses in mental hospitals  Nurses in psychiatric units of general hospitals  Nurses in community mental health  Nurses with formal training in mental ... providing continuing professional development opportunities. A mental health major has been introduced into the basic nursing programme. Student nurses who are interested in working in mental health...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... programme approach’. State interest in user involvement led to a massive expansion in market research and consultation initiatives in mental health as in other areas of health and social care (Beresford ... PERSPECTIVES IN MENTAL HEALTH of related interest Good Practice in Adult Mental Health Edited by Tony Ryan and Jacki Pritchard Good Practice in Social Work 10 ISBN 1 84310 217 X Racism and Mental Health Prejudice ... experiencing mental dis- tress. However, in many ways, the stakes would seem to be even higher in mental health. Both at an individual and at a societal level, there may be vested interests in avoiding...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... participate in such struggles, since doing so would only lead to frustration and discomfort. Such things should be avoided. Walking away from such involvement is only maximising Ethical issues in social ... available in this series: Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick Genetic Counselling edited by Angus Clarke Ethical Issues in Nursing edited...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... preventive interventions include fluoridation of drinking water, fortification of food prod- ucts, seat belt legislation, and routine childhood vaccinations. In the mental health field, such interventions may include ... great deal more about treating mental illness than preventing mental illness and promoting mental health. A major course of action identified in the report focused on continuing to build the science ... support- ing strategies for mental health promotion and illness prevention. In the 10 years since the report on mental health, significant progress has been made in the promotion of mental health...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... Sections of the quality press—the Guardian, The Independent, the Financial Times— have nobly maintained a public interest role, but in a changing and increasingly complex democratic society there is ... be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information ... the line should be drawn it should not be drawn here. But the general problem remains, both in this and many other cases. Moreover, however much effort is put into drawing clear lines in a...

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