
Ethical Issues in the Neonatal SUPPORT Trial
John D. Lantos
in Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (2 ed.)
The controversy over the neonatal Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oximetry Randomized Trial (SUPPORT) study of oxygen saturation targets in extremely premature babies was intense and ...
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Clinical Innovations Near the Boundary of Viability—The Artificial Womb
Ryan M. Antiel and Alan W. Flake
in Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (2 ed.)
Extreme prematurity is the leading cause of infant death and morbidity. And, despite advances in neonatal medicine and surgery, the rate of prematurity has risen. The urgent need for a ...
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Multiple Relationships in the Military Setting
Jeffrey E. Barnett
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Military psychologists function in roles and settings that necessitate participation in a range of multiple relationships. Recommendations are provided, to include the thoughtful ...
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Letter to The Lancet: Frontal Lobes of the Human Brain
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 4, 1952-1955
In this letter to The Lancet, Winnicott expresses approval of the journal’s questioning the ethics of leucotomy. He maintains his stance that ordinary medical opinion and public opinion ...
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Ethics and Research with Children: Introduction to the Second Edition
Eric Kodish and Robert M. Nelson
in Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (2 ed.)
This brief introductory chapter highlights the central tension between the need to protect children from research risk with the imperative to conduct pediatric research. After reviewing ...
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Ethics
Tony Hope
in Oxford Guide to Surviving as a CBT Therapist
Chapter 4 explores ethics, ethical theories and principles, CBT theory and ethics, confidentiality, autonomy and the professional relationship, and resource allocation. ...

Step 4: Responding Ethically to Legal Demands for “Involuntary” Disclosure of Patient Information
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 7 discusses disclosures that are legally coerced, and how this can create very different ethical obligations for therapists in comparison to disclosures that are voluntary, because ...
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Operational Psychology
Thomas J. Williams
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Operational psychology involves leveraging psychological expertise in support of national security, military intelligence, and law enforcement operations. This chapter provides an overview ...
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Collaborating with Legal Professionals
Eric G. Mart
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
This chapter provides information designed to assist mental health professionals in effectively marketing their services to courts, attorneys, and the legal system in general. Suggestions ...
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The Use of Social Media in Marketing a Practice
Heather Wittenberg
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
This chapter explains how social media use can be a powerful practice-marketing tool for private practitioners. It can help build referral sources, improve one’s visibility as a clinical ...
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Social Media and Pediatric Research Recruitment
Luke Gelinas and Jennifer C. Kesselheim
in Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (2 ed.)
Social media use has increased exponentially across all demographics. With social media’s widespread popularity comes an increased potential for research sponsors and investigators to use ...
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Technology Applications in Delivering Mental Health Services
Greg M. Reger
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Military psychologists are increasingly seeking ways to improve Service Members’ access to resources, mitigate treatment stigma, and improve treatment outcomes. A range of technologies are ...
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Ethics-Based Staff Training About Confidentiality
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 13 discusses ethics-based staff training about confidentiality, including ethical standards and professional recommendations, legal requirements, integrating ethical and legal ...
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Ethics Guiding Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Walter Erich Penk, Dolores Little, and Nathan D. Ainspan
in Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Veterans and Service Members: A Guide for the Non-Military Mental Health Clinician
This chapter focuses on ethical standards for psychosocial rehabilitation. Rehabilitation criteria require health care providers not only to meet ethical standards when reducing symptoms ...
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Laws Affecting Confidentiality
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 2 discusses laws affecting confidentiality, including the underlying legal concepts, laws protecting confidentiality, non-disclosure laws, the Health Insurance Portability and ...
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Introduction to Part II: The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Part 2 of this resource discusses the ethics of conditional confidentiality, and covers the steps in the Ethical Practice Model, and the chapter titles in this section reflect the subject ...
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Step 2: Telling Patients the Truth About Confidentiality’s Limits
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 5 walks therapists through Step 2, and covers two conversations in which therapists must explain confidentiality and its limits, and how therapists are ethically required to conduct ...
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Ethical Responsibilities About Confidentiality
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 1 discusses ethical responsibilities about confidentiality, and includes definitions, underlying principles, formal ethical standards, professional guidelines and recommendations, ...
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Insurance Companies Just Care About Profits and I Care About My Patients, So It Is OK to Bend the Rules to Get Paid
Jeffrey E. Barnett and Jeffrey Zimmerman
in If You Build It They Will Come: And Other Myths of Private Practice in the Mental Health Professions
It may be easy to think that because insurance companies are so profitable it is acceptable to engage in ethically or legally questionable practices to ensure that clients receive needed ...
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Supervision, Management, Administration, and Teaching
Robert A. DiTomasso, Stacey C. Cahn, Susan M. Panichelli-Mindel, and Roger K. McFillin
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Psychology
In this chapter we discuss professional activities a psychologist may engage in aside from traditional therapy and assessment; more specifically, teaching and supervising students, and ...
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