| The Mental Health Practitioner and the Law: A Comprehensive Handbook Contributor(s): Lifson, Lawrence E. (Editor), Simon, Robert I. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0674697219 ISBN-13: 9780674697218 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1998 Annotation: Here is a unique and practical guide to clinical risk management in the mental health field. The book combines the expertise of mental health professionals, judges, attorneys, and insurance industry experts to help the clinician provide effective treatment while reducing the risk of legal liability. Wide-ranging, clinically based, and up-to-date, this will be a welcome guide for medical and surgical practitioners as well. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Medical Law & Legislation - Psychology | Reference - Law | Practical Guides |
| Dewey: 344.730 |
| LCCN: 97041510 |
| Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.51" W x 9.52" (1.51 lbs) 116 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Could I be sued?" The exploding number of malpractice lawsuits in recent years has brought this question to the mind of every clinician---the conscientious as well as the negligent. A unique and practical guide to clinical risk management, this book combines the expertise of mental health professionals, judges, attorneys, and insurance industry experts, to help the clinician provide effective treatment while reducing the risk of legal liability. Wide-ranging, clinically based, and up to date, it will be a welcome guide for medical and surgical practitioners as well. The first section gives clinicians a working knowledge of legal regulation in psychiatry and medicine, covering informed consent, documentation of patient care, and potential conflicts of interest. The second section identifies high-risk areas for lawsuits, including managing suicidal and violent patients, boundary violations, supervision issues, prescription of medications, liability in managed care settings, and treatment termination. The book concludes with a primer on clinical testimony in the courtroom. The broad range of distinguished contributors to this volume will provide a survival guide to clinicians in the increasingly complex and rapidly changing world of health care. |
Contributor Bio(s): Simon, Robert I.: - Robert I. Simon is Director of the Program in Psychiatry and Law and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and is the author of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law and editor of the Review of Clinical Psychiatry and the Law.Lifson, Lawrence E.: - Lawrence E. Lifson, M.D., is a Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Continuing Education Program in the HMS Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center. He is the editor of Understanding Therapeutic Action. |