Background Psychiatric staff members have the power to decide the options that frame
encounters with patients. Intentional as well as unintentional framing can have a crucial …

Involuntary hospital treatment is practised throughout the world. Providing appropriate
treatment in this context is particularly challenging for mental health professionals, who …

Background Little is known about how health care professionals deal with ethical challenges
in mental health care, especially when not making use of a formal ethics support service …

Aim The aim of this study was to explore psychiatric nurses' experiences and perspectives
regarding patient participation. Patient participation is an ambiguous, complex and poorly …

Background In psychiatric inpatient care, situations arise where it may be necessary to use
coercive measures and thereby restrict individual autonomy. The ethical principles of …

Objective To study how doctors care for their patients, both medically and as fellow humans,
through observing their conduct in patient–doctor encounters. Design Qualitative study in …

Background: Ethics rounds are one way to support healthcare personnel in handling
ethically difficult situations. A previous study in the present project showed that ethics rounds …

Background: Nursing is an occupation that deals with humans and relies upon human
relationships. Nursing care, which is an important component of these relationships …

Background Professionals within the mental health services face many ethical dilemmas
and challenging situations regarding the use of coercion. The purpose of this study was to …

Psychiatry has not reached a consensus hitherto concerning an optimal theoretical
framework for ethical decision-making and corresponding action. Various theories have …