Psychiatric Nursing Ethical Strife

Name: Psychiatric Nursing Ethical Strife
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ISBN: 9780340625231

ISBN-10: 0340625236

ISBN-13: 9780340625231

Edition: 1997

Authors: Philip J. Barker, Ben Davidson

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This book explores the philosophical background, the range of ethical issues arising in clinical practice, and the dilemmas surrounding the ideological approaches to psychiatric practice.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 11/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 13.78" wide x 4.33" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Editors' profiles


Authors' profiles


Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements



The ethical landscape




Freedom, psychiatry and responsibility




Society, disturbance and illness




The ethics of professionalised care




The role of the psychiatric nurse




Anti-psychiatry: the ethical and practical alternatives to traditional treatment




Creating from chaos




Psychiatric nursing and the myth of altruism




Dissent




Whose reality is it anyway?




Asserting difference: psychiatric care in black and white




Working with women




Writing as a tool of reflective practice: sketches and reflections from inside the split milieu of an eating disorders unit




Doing and being: a Buddhist perspective on craving and addiction




The paradox of psychiatric nursing: making a difference by attempting to change nothing




Trying to treat the system: dominance and negotiation in family therapy




Listening to clients




Clinical sociology and empowerment




Community psychology: a social action approach to psychological distress




Democracy in psychiatric settings: collectivism vs. individualism




Quality assurance: the ethical dimension of measuring work




Buying a self: the ethics of purchasing therapy




Reframing the experience of AIDS: marginalisation, liminality and beyond




The wounded healer and the myth of mental well-being: ethical issues concerning the mental health status of psychiatric nurses




Epilogue: the heart of the ethical matter



Index