Thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition, this award-winning handbook gives mental health professionals authoritative guidance on how the law affects their clinical practice. Each chapter presents case examples of legal issues that arise in practice, clearly explains the governing legal rules, their rationale, and their clinical impact, and offers concrete action guides to navigating clinico-legal dilemmas. This edition addresses crucial recent developments including new federal rules protecting patients' privacy, regulations minimizing use of seclusion and restraint, liability risks associated with newer psychiatric medications, malpractice risks in forensic psychiatry, and new structured assessment tools for violence risk, suicidality, and decisional capacity.

Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law (CLINICAL HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY & THE LAW (GUTHEIL))

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Gutheil MD, Thomas G.

Appelbaum MD, Paul S.

Basic Sciences

Written by two renowned leaders in the field, the much-anticipated fifth edition ofClinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Lawoffers mental health professionals authoritative guidance on how today’s law affects clinical practice. Each chapter in this award-winning reference presents case examples of legal issues often seen in day-to-day practice; clearly explains the governing legal rules, their rationale, and their clinical impact; and offers concrete action guides to navigating clinicolegal dilemmas. It’s a must-have resource for anyone in the mental health field who needs an easy-to-read, practical handbook addressing both longstanding legal/ethical issues and crucial recent developments in the field. 
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<li>Addresses recent developments including the impact of electronic health records on privacy and liability risks, new technologies, prescription drug monitoring programs, risk management in integrated care, the practitioner’s role in assessing suitability for gun ownership, and more.</li>
<li>Reflects timely issues such as changing attitudes toward seclusion and restraint, new medications for psychiatric disorders and the role of informed consent, and increased liability and scrutiny of expert witnesses.</li>
<li>Presents real-world case examples using an engaging, easy-to-read writing style, and includes unique action guides in each chapter that specify practical approaches to clinicolegal dilemmas.</li>
<li>A useful study aid to help prepare for the forensic psychiatry sections of specialty board examinations.</li>
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Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law

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Both medical students and graduate physicians may encounter patients with psychiatric disorders in non-psychiatric settings of general or specialty medical practice. The six vignettes presented in this book demonstrate such encounters respectively for patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder and psychopathy. For instructional purposes the medical practitioners in the vignettes make multiple errors and miss vital pieces of information, allowing the student-readers to feel comfortably superior, as well as allowing instructors to make useful teaching points. The vignette format serves as a non-threatening manner in which to present major mental illnesses as they may be encountered in real world settings.

Six Psychiatric Cases for Non-Psychiatrists: Clinical vignettes from the front lines

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Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law (CLINICAL HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIATRY & THE LAW (GUTHEIL))

Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law

Six Psychiatric Cases for Non-Psychiatrists: Clinical vignettes from the front lines