Prior editions of Psychiatric Ethics have acknowledged the potential for ethical problems
when clinicians diagnose psychiatric illness and when psychiatric nosologists classify …

Respect for the autonomy of the human being is a cherished principle of biomedical ethics
(Beauchamp and Childress, 2008). The principle derives from Enlightenment liberal …

People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia are thought to experience a „loss‟ of self,
theoretically assumed to be the direct result of their „disease‟ or mental illness. This …

Each day we encounter people in our lives whom we treat (to put it bluntly) as resources to
be exploited. Any of us, given time and a notepad, could come up with hundreds of …

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Orientation: This study explored the experiences of adolescent males and their relationships
with child and adolescent service providers. Research Purpose: The purpose of this …

Psychiatrists have written much about the explosive expansion of scientific knowledge of the
brain which developed over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Comparatively …

The controversial debate on whether to remove the bereavement exclu-23 sion from the
DSM's depression criteria has mostly focused on whether depression 24 and grief related …

The transition from casual to compulsive drug use is thought to occur as a consequence of
repeated drug taking leading to neuroadaptive changes in brain circuitry involved in emotion …

In the United States, as noted in earlier chapters, the official designation for advanced
practice nurses in psychiatric and mental health is APRN-PMH. We use this acronym …