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Risk management with suicidal patients / edited by Bruce Bongar ... [and others].
LIBRA RC569 .R57 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide--Prevention.
- Suicide.
- Suicidal behavior--Treatment--Standards--United States.
- Suicidal behavior.
- Mental health personnel--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Mental health personnel.
- Mental health personnel--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Mental health personnel--Malpractice.
- Suicidal behavior--Treatment.
- United States.
- Mental health personnel--Malpractice--United States.
- Tort liability of hospitals--United States.
- Tort liability of hospitals.
- Risk Management.
- Malpractice.
- Medical Subjects:
- Suicide.
- Risk Management.
- United States.
- Malpractice.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 197 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- How does the law define "reasonable care" in the treatment of suicidal patients? What are the most clinically and legally appropriate procedures for evaluating and managing suicide risks? And what forms of precautionary planning and documentation are recommended for minimizing the likelihood of malpractice actions? Drawing upon years of clinical experience as well as extensive malpractice claims data and relevant case law, this book outlines effective assessment, management, and treatment procedures that balance the need for high-quality care with the requirements of court-determined and statutory standards. Three widely cited papers on standards of care are accompanied by four new chapters on clinical and legal risk management and issues surrounding pharmacotherapy.
- Contents:
- 1. Outpatient Standards of Care and the Suicidal Patient / Bruce Bongar, Ronald W. Maris, Alan L. Berman, Robert E. Litman 4
- 2. Outpatient Management of Suicidal Patients / Andrew Edmund Slaby 34
- 3. Inpatient Standards of Care and the Suicidal Patient: Part I. General Clinical Formulations and Legal Considerations / Bruce Bongar, Ronald W. Maris, Alan L. Berman, Robert E. Litman, Morton M. Silverman 65
- 4. Inpatient Standards of Care and the Suicidal Patient: Part II. An Integration with Clinical Risk Management / Morton M. Silverman, Alan L. Berman, Bruce Bongar, Robert E. Litman, Ronald W. Maris 83
- 5. Psychopharmacological Treatment of Suicidal Inpatients / Mark J. Goldblatt, Morton M. Silverman, Alan F. Schatzberg 110
- 6. Clinical Psychopharmacotherapy with Hospitalized Patients: A Forensic Perspective / Morton M. Silverman 130
- 7. Legal Issues and Risk Management in Suicidal Patients / Wendy L. Packman, Eric A. Harris 150
- Postscript: Commentary on Chapters 1, 3, and 4 / Robert E. Litman 187
- Postscript: Reply to Robert E. Litman / Morton M. Silverman 188.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1572303026
- OCLC:
- 38081856
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