Ethical Practice and Legislation

Ethical Practice and Legislation

Introduction

In caring for people with mental disorders, ethical issues require priority attention, and an ongoing review and development. This is a particularly vulnerable group, which is often complex to ensure equal opportunities with other patients in other specialties, ensure they are treated with respect and dignity and promote impacting on their recovery. Stigma and discrimination also affect professional practice and may be in violation of fundamental rights of individuals (Corey et al. 2007). 

Discussion

APA Objectives

Respect for privacy physical, psychological and socio-cultural.

The therapeutic relationship often involves a large involvement in the private and intimate sphere of the patient. Professional-patient relationships are established trust and confidence, making it difficult to respect privacy. Therefore, the clinician should pursue, at all times, considerate and respectful treatment, ensuring no private sphere without breaking the patient's desire.

Respect Confidentiality of information.

Some key aspects to respect the privacy and confidentiality are:

Protect and treat physical intimacy at all times with consideration and respect.

Consult with the patient as to whether consent is informed his family and, in case of authorization, report it in his presence.

Extreme caution in the use of clinical history information.

Avoid commenting on the situation / the patient with unauthorized partners, or in places where they can be heard by others.

In communicating with others, always use the criterion of "minimum necessary information".

Respect for the will and autonomy.

From the perspective of many patients, care is often away from subjectivity, opinion and patient preferences in deciding the therapeutic indications. There is an excessive focus on the drug, and reported some alternatives, informed consent or adverse effects of psychoactive drugs. In general, the message provides the low patient's role in recovery, focusing on expectations of improved medication use. Provide information to patients it is a right and duty of the health, both ethically and legally, and this right should prevail throughout the ...