Publisher's Synopsis
This pocket-sized guide organizes a range of information into a quick-reference format. Numerous tables and a glossary of legal terms summarize essential information. This edition has been updated to include many of the changes in legal issues.;This edition is kept brief with ten chapters but covers subjects relevant to psychiatrists: clinical psychiatry and the law; the doctor-patient relationship; confidentiality; informed consent; psychiatric treatment; seclusion and restraint; involuntary hospitalization; suicidal patients; potentially violent patients; and sexual misconduct.
