From Courtroom to Clinic
Subtitle: Legal Cases That Changed Mental Health Treatment
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781108432658
Subjects: Mental health laws; Mentally ill
Description: "Why do present-day mental health professionals practice the way that they do? Over the past fifty years, a number of landmark court holdings have changed such basic principles as what material is confidential, how civil commitment and involuntary treatment are conducted, and when a therapist has a duty to protect the public from a dangerous patient. Unlike most legal texts, this volume explores these complex principles through the human stories of the litigants involved"--Provided by publisher.