Helping the Helpers Not to Harm
Subtitle: Iatrogenic Damage and Community Mental Health
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781583910955
Subjects: Community care; Mental health services; Psychology; Mental Illness; Psychology & Psychiatry Profession - General; Practice Management; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy; Mental Health; Community mental health services; Iatrogenic diseases; Psychiatric errors
First sentence: Iatrogenic harm is a term that originated in medical practice to denote the damage induced in a patient as a by-product of a therapeutic intervention, such as undesirable side effects of medication or secondary infections caused by invasive procedures.