- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
-
I Foundational Questions -
1 Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis -
2 Moot Questions in Psychiatric Ethics -
3 The Ethics of Psychotherapy -
4 Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice -
II Capacity, Coercion, and Consent -
5 Psychiatric Advance Directives and the Treatment of Committed Patients -
6 Denying Autonomy in Order to Create It: The Paradox of Forcing Treatment upon Addicts -
7 End-Stage Anorexia: Criteria for Competence to Refuse Treatment -
8 “Personality Disorder” and Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions -
III Violence, Trauma, and Treatment -
9 Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder -
10 The Experience of Violent Injury for Young African American Men: The Meaning of Being a “Sucker” -
11 The Psychological Impact of Rape Victims’ Experiences with the Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Systems -
IV Addiction -
12 Addiction as Accomplishment: The Discursive Construction of Disease -
13 The Ethics of Addiction -
14 Myths about the Treatment of Addiction -
15 Ethical Considerations in Caring for People Living with Addictions -
V Mental Illness and the Courts -
16 Confidentiality and the Prediction of Dangerousness in Psychiatry -
17 Madness versus Badness: The Ethical Tension between the Recovery Movement and Forensic Psychiatry -
18 Ethical Considerations of Multiple Roles in Forensic Services -
19 Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian Judges -
VI Therapeutic Boundaries -
20 Boundary Violation Ethics: Some Conceptual Clarifications -
21 The Price of a Gift: An Approach to Receiving Gifts from Patients in Psychiatric Practice -
22 How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness -
23 Boundary Issues in Social Work: Managing Dual Relationships -
24 Patient-Targeted Googling: The Ethics of Searching Online for Patient Information -
25 Professional Boundaries in the Era of the Internet - Contributors
- Permissions and Credits
- Index
Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
- Chapter:
- (p.59) 4 Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice
- Source:
- Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
- Author(s):
Jennifer Radden
John Z. Sadler
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
In this discussion by a clinician and a philosopher, clinical scenarios using exchanges and inner monologue illustrate key aspects of virtues. Virtues are acquired through habituation; they are habits of mind as much as behavior; they are as a group heterogeneous, and individually composite; they involve affective responses; they are not impartial; they are compatible with the “role morality” required of professionals; they are responses to particular temptations and weaknesses; and they include, in the capacity for practical judgment known as phronesis, a way of resolving many of the conflicts and dilemmas that arise in practice. The virtue approach to ethics will likely be most useful in the educational setting where practitioners are learning clinical skills and socialized into the broad ethos of professional practice. Aspects of this educational effort are briefly reviewed, including whether it ought to be undertaken at all, whether the effort to teach virtues is possible, and, if so, how it can be achieved.
Keywords: Virtue, Ethics, Psychiatry, phronesis
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
-
I Foundational Questions -
1 Contested Boundaries: Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis -
2 Moot Questions in Psychiatric Ethics -
3 The Ethics of Psychotherapy -
4 Character Virtues in Psychiatric Practice -
II Capacity, Coercion, and Consent -
5 Psychiatric Advance Directives and the Treatment of Committed Patients -
6 Denying Autonomy in Order to Create It: The Paradox of Forcing Treatment upon Addicts -
7 End-Stage Anorexia: Criteria for Competence to Refuse Treatment -
8 “Personality Disorder” and Capacity to Make Treatment Decisions -
III Violence, Trauma, and Treatment -
9 Sanctity of Human Life in War: Ethics and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder -
10 The Experience of Violent Injury for Young African American Men: The Meaning of Being a “Sucker” -
11 The Psychological Impact of Rape Victims’ Experiences with the Legal, Medical, and Mental Health Systems -
IV Addiction -
12 Addiction as Accomplishment: The Discursive Construction of Disease -
13 The Ethics of Addiction -
14 Myths about the Treatment of Addiction -
15 Ethical Considerations in Caring for People Living with Addictions -
V Mental Illness and the Courts -
16 Confidentiality and the Prediction of Dangerousness in Psychiatry -
17 Madness versus Badness: The Ethical Tension between the Recovery Movement and Forensic Psychiatry -
18 Ethical Considerations of Multiple Roles in Forensic Services -
19 Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian Judges -
VI Therapeutic Boundaries -
20 Boundary Violation Ethics: Some Conceptual Clarifications -
21 The Price of a Gift: An Approach to Receiving Gifts from Patients in Psychiatric Practice -
22 How Certain Boundaries and Ethics Diminish Therapeutic Effectiveness -
23 Boundary Issues in Social Work: Managing Dual Relationships -
24 Patient-Targeted Googling: The Ethics of Searching Online for Patient Information -
25 Professional Boundaries in the Era of the Internet - Contributors
- Permissions and Credits
- Index
