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Title Ethical issues in forensic mental health research / edited by Gwen Adshead and Christine Brown
Published London ; New York : J. Kingsley Publishers, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (144 pages)
Series Forensic focus ; 21
Forensic focus ; 21.
Contents Ethical Issues in Forensic Mental Health Research; Contents; Introduction; 1. Do You Feel Lucky?: Assessing Capacity to Consent to Research in Forensic Mental Health Practice; 2. In Whose Best Interest?: Consent by Adolescents to Research Participation; 3. Dangerous Stories: Consent and Confidentiality in Health and Social Care Research; 4. User Views and Ethical Issues in Qualitative Methods; 5. Ethical Issues in Risk Assessment Practice and Research; 6. Multi-disciplinary Aspects of Forensic Mental Health Research; 7. Research Ethics Committees and Research in Forensic Psychiatry
Summary A contemporary case-based discussion of ethical dilemmas faced by researchers in forensic mental health, this book offers useful guidance to anyone planning research in this field. It focuses on problems frequently encountered, such as issues of capacity to consent in forensic settings and the meaning of consent to participate. Chapters cover issues such as the procurement of consent among incarcerated people; the ability of young people to provide consent; the effects of culturally specific lay beliefs about mental illness; confidentiality; multidisciplinary approaches; and ethics in risk ass
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Forensic psychiatry -- Study and teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects
Risk assessment.
Forensic Psychiatry -- ethics
Ethics, Research
Risk Assessment
risk assessment.
Pathology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Forensic Psychology.
Risk assessment
Form Electronic book
Author Adshead, Gwen
Brown, Christine, 1968-
ISBN 1417501812
9781417501816
1846423961
9781846423963
1283904241
9781283904247