Title: From Courtroom to Clinic
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.
Subjects: Mental health laws, Mentally ill, Cases, Insanity (Law), Legal status, laws, Psychotherapy, Legislation & jurisprudence, Psychiatry, Mentally Ill Persons, Mental Health Services, Forensic Psychiatry