Mental Health Ethics

<p>All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of Conduct and other forms of professional guidance, there are no easy answers to most human problems. <em>Mental Health Ethics</em> encourages readers to heighten their awareness of the key ethical dilemmas found in mainstream contemporary mental health practice. </p><p>This text provides an overview of traditional and contemporary ethical perspectives and critically examines a range of ethical and moral challenges present in contemporary ‘psychiatric-mental’ health services. Offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective, it includes six parts, each with their own introduction, summary and set of ethical challenges, covering:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>fundamental ethical principles; </li> <p> </p> <li>legal issues; </li> <p> </p> <li>specific challenges for different professional groups; </li> <p> </p> <li>working with different service user groups; </li> <p> </p> <li>models of care and treatment; </li> <p> </p> <li>recovery and human rights perspectives. </li> </ul><p>Providing detailed consideration of issues and dilemmas, <em>Mental Health Ethics</em> helps all mental health professionals keep people at the centre of the services they offer.</p> <p><strong>Part1: Ethics and Mental Health</strong> 1. Ethics: In Search of the Good Life 2. The Keystone of Psychiatric Ethics 3. Who Cares Any More, Anyway? <strong>Part 2: The Professional Context</strong> 4. The Psychiatrist<em> </em> 5. The Mental Health Nurse 6. The Social Worker 7. The Clinical Psychologist 8. The Therapist<em> </em>9. The Occupational Therapist 10. The Chaplain<em> </em> <strong>Part 3: Care and Treatment</strong> 11. Psychiatric Diagnosis 12. Professional Relationships 13. Restraint 14. ECT and Consent 15. Medication <strong>Part 4: The Human Context</strong> 16. Acute Care 17. Forensic Care 18. Addictions<em> </em> 19. Younger People in Mental Health Care 20. Older People in Mental Health Care 21. Race and Culture 22. Suicide <strong>Part 5: Legal Issues</strong> 23. Mental Health Law in England and Wales 24. Mental Health Law in Ireland 25. Mental Health Law in Scotland 26. Advance Directives 27. The Insanity Defence and Diminished Responsibility <strong>Part 6: Ideologal Issues</strong> 28. Talk about Recovery 29. Illusion, Individuality and Autonomy<em> </em>30. Ethics: The Elephant in the Room</p>