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The APA ethics code 2.06(b) describes a clinician's ethical responsibility should personal situations interfere with a clinician's ability to perform their duties adequately. [2] Clinicians experiencing a priori counter-transference should consider utilizing more frequent consultations, receive increased levels of personal therapy, or consider ...
Trauma can result from a wide range of experiences which expose humans to one or more physical, emotional, and/or relational dangers. Physical: Physical injury, brain injury, assault, crime, [21] natural disaster, war, pain, and situational harm like vehicle [22] or industrial accidents.
These principles play an essential role in guiding medical decisions, helping healthcare providers care for the well-being of patients while maintaining their decision-making capacity, thus achieving a fundamental balance between medical ethics and the commitment of health professionals to patients [18]
A moral injury is an injury to an individual's moral conscience and values resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves or others. [1] It produces profound feelings of guilt or shame, [1] moral disorientation, and societal alienation. [2]
Another ethical challenge of therapeutic privilege which is discussed by Finnerty, is the question of who is qualified to judge the effect of non-disclosure on a patient which is critical consideration for a decision, ‘Insofar as it could be, what was clear from the case law was that it is the medical professional’s judgement of the effect ...
Principlism is an applied ethics approach to the examination of moral dilemmas centering the application of certain ethical principles. This approach to ethical decision-making has been prevalently adopted in various professional fields, largely because it sidesteps complex debates in moral philosophy at the theoretical level.
The Improving Trauma Care Act of 2014 (H.R. 3548; Pub. L. 113–152 (text)) is a bill that would amend the Public Health Service Act, with respect to trauma care and research programs, to include in the definition of "trauma" an injury resulting from extrinsic agents other than mechanical force, including those that are thermal, electrical, chemical, or radioactive.
In medical law and medical ethics, the duty to protect is the responsibility of a mental health professional to protect patients and others from foreseeable harm. [1] If a client makes statements that suggest suicidal or homicidal ideation, the clinician has the responsibility to take steps to warn potential victims, and if necessary, initiate involuntary commitment.