With engaging insight, the author deftly reviews the nuances of ethics fundamentals. She then discusses with guest contributors ethical dilemmas and approaches to clinical work with children and youth, veterans, patients from culturally distinct backgrounds, HIV/AIDS patients, those at the end of life, patients living with addictions, and more.
A Dignified Ending challenges the idea that prolonging life by every means possible is the only reasonable response to a dire diagnosis or to intractable suffering. It uses true accounts to illustrate how people have choreographed their deaths, and it recommends that death with dignity laws include dementias and other neurodegenerative disorders.
The term bioethics was first used in the early 1970s by biologists who were concerned about ethical implications of genetic and ecological interventions, but was soon applied to all aspects of biomedical ethics, including health care delivery, research, and public policy. This book features over 400 entries on the significant to the field.
Teaches counsellors how to think and act quickly when facing ethical dilemmas. This practical worktext addresses common ethical quagmires faced by counselling professionals. With 63 case examples, this must-have resource demonstrates step-by-step application of decision-making models to real life counseling scenarios.
From Harry and Louise through the McCaughey septuplets, this book explains stories and issues in health care ethics that have appeared in the news media. It outlines and applies principles of justice from the Catholic tradition to contemporary problems that increasingly affect us.
Using Technology Ethically and Effectively in Your Professional Practice
Provides practical recommendations on a range of issues associated with electronic-based mental health care. Each chapter presents a guideline, explains how it relates to professional ethics and standards of care, and applies it to case examples. The richly nuanced case examples depict a broad range of dilemmas that psychologists may encounter ......
Using Technology Ethically and Effectively in Your Professional Practice
Provides practical recommendations on a range of issues associated with electronic-based mental health care. The book's recommendations draw from the Guidelines for the Practice of Telepsychology. Each chapter presents a guideline, explains how it relates to professional ethics and standards of care, and applies it to case examples.
Focuses on five general issues of health care for elderly population: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care.
According to a Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical error - a figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, or breast cancer. This book examines how conventional structures of accountability in law and medical structure should be replaced by ethically informed institutional policies.
