Mental Health Ethics: The Human Context

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits. As a result ethical conduct is complex. Despite the proliferation of Codes of Conduct and other forms of professional guidance, there are no easy answers to most human problems. Mental Health Ethics encourages readers to heighten their awareness of the key ethical dilemmas found in mainstream contemporary mental health practice. This text provides an overview of traditional and contemporary ethical perspectives and critically examines a range of ethical and moral challenges present in contemporary ‘psychiatric-mental’ health services. Offering a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective, it includes six parts, each with their own introduction, summary and set of ethical challenges, covering: fundamental ethical principles; legal issues; specific challenges for different professional groups; working with different service user groups; models of care and treatment; recovery and human rights perspectives. Providing detailed consideration of issues and dilemmas, Mental Health Ethics helps all mental health professionals keep people at the centre of the services they offer.Additional ISBNs0415570999, 0415571006, 9780415570992, 9780415571005, 0203839056, 6613043346, 1283043343, 1136881948, 113688193X, 1136881891, 9780203839058, 9786613043344, 9781283043342, 9781136881947, 9781136881930, 9781136881893Mental Health Ethics: The Human Context 1st Edition is written by Phil Barker and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Mental Health Ethics are 9781136881930, 113688193X and the print ISBNs are 9780415571005, 0415571006. Additional ISBNs include 0415570999, 0415571006, 9780415570992, 9780415571005, 0203839056, 6613043346, 1283043343, 1136881948, 113688193X, 1136881891, 9780203839058, 9786613043344, 9781283043342, 9781136881947, 9781136881930, 9781136881893.