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- The only book that targets the transition between medical education and professional appointments
- Designed to be reader friendly for easy reference
- Written by experts in the field
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is specifically designed for new psychiatrists and all other medical professionals who lack the training necessary to confront the complicated legal and ethical issues that arise at the intersection of the mental health and judicial systems. Written by experts in the field, each chapter begins with a challenging case vignette synthesized from a historical legal case that places the reader in the role of the treatment provider. The text presents details of the legal case, historical significance, and the precedent it set before discussing the core principles of that particular subject area. Each chapter reviews the existing literature and reinforces the most salient points. Topics include risk assessment, substance misuse and the law, legal issues within child and adolescent psychiatry, involuntary medication considerations, and other challenges that are often not sufficiently addressed in training. The text is specifically designed for new psychiatrists and other professionals who are transitioning from their studies into clinical practice, concisely explaining and defining the issues in a practical, reader-friendly tone suitable as both a quick-reference in a busy environment or as a resource for private study.
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Psychiatry and the Law: Basic Principles is an excellent resource for new psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, students, and other professionals accommodating medical and legal boundaries in clinical practice.Editors and Affiliations
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Yale University School of Medicine, New haven, USA
Tobias Wasser
About the editor
Tobias Wasser, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Law and Psychiatry Division
34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06519
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychiatry and the Law
Book Subtitle: Basic Principles
Editors: Tobias Wasser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63148-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87484-5Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63148-6Published: 03 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 195
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Forensic Medicine, Pharmacotherapy, Public Health