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Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care,
including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality,
and therapeutic boundaries. This book discusses some of the most
critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the
moral dimensions of addiction, patient autonomy and compulsory
treatment, privacy and confidentiality, and the definition of
mental illness itself. Although debates over these issues are
ongoing, there are few comprehensive resources for addressing such
dilemmas in the practice of psychology, psychiatry, social work,
and other behavioral and mental health care professions. This book
meets that need, providing foundational background for
undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses. Topics include
central questions such as evolving views of the morality and
pathology of deviant behavior; patient competence and the decision
to refuse treatment; recognizing and treating people who have
suffered trauma; addiction as illness; the therapist's
responsibility to report dangerousness despite patient
confidentiality; and boundaries for the therapist's interaction
with patients outside of therapy, whether in the form of tennis
games, gift-giving, or social media contact. For the most part the
selections address contemporary issues in contemporary terms, but
the book also offers a few historic or classic essays, including
Thomas S. Szasz's controversial 1971 article "The Ethics of
Addiction." Contributors Laura Weiss Roberts, Frederic G. Reamer,
Charles P. O'Brien, and Thomas McLellan
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