Providing psychiatric care to children and adolescents raises a distinct set of ethical issues
and challenges. Interests at stake may include patient autonomy and well-being, parental …

Child and adolescent psychiatrists deal with ethical issues and questions in many aspects of
their professional activities. Whether in private practice academic, or hospital-based settings …

Ethical dilemmas unique to child and adolescent psychiatry are consequences of the child
psychiatrist's duty to serve as advocate for child patients while simultaneously having …

Clinical work--psychotherapy, assessment, consultation, or research--with emotionally ill
children and adolescents is challenging, complex, and exceedingly rewarding. Psychiatrists …

Familiarity with medical ethical theory and the history of bioethics is helpful for the
understanding of the current state of bioethics, as well as possible future developments that …

Practicing psychotherapy with children and adolescents presents many practical ethical
considerations quite different from those that apply when dealing solely with adult clients. To …

The professional obligations of the child and adolescent psychiatrist are complicated by
three vectors of responsibility. Distinct sets of ethical duties are owed to the minor patient …

Introduction Ethics is an integral component of child and adolescent psychiatry. While ethics
can seem abstract or philosophical, its tenets are fundamental to the practice of medicine …

Ethics is concerned with the basis for moral judgments of “right” and “wrong” and is central to
the clinical endeavor. Many clinicians integrate ethical estimations into their work without …

In this paper, we consider whether the field of infant and early childhood mental health
(IECMH) needs its own code of ethics. We begin by describing unique features of infant and …