TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woody,Robert Henley
TI  - Legal self-defense for mental health practitioners: quality care and risk management strategies 
SN  - 9780826195661
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer Pub. Co.
KW  - Mental health personnel
KW  - Malpractice
KW  - Professional ethics
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Medical care
KW  - National health services
KW  - Organization
KW  - Health services administration
KW  - Social control
KW  - Economics
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Medical personnel and patient
KW  - Risk management
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
KW  - Disabled Persons
KW  - Interpersonal Relations
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - Health Services
KW  - Financial Management
KW  - Organization and Administration
KW  - Psychiatry and Psychology
KW  - Health Services Administration
KW  - Social Control, Formal
KW  - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
KW  - Persons
KW  - Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
KW  - Psychology, Social
KW  - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
KW  - Health Care Economics and Organizations
KW  - Named Groups
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
KW  - Professional-Patient Relations
KW  - Risk Management
KW  - Mental Health Services
KW  - Mentally Ill Persons
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mental health practitioners under siege -- Social psychology of practitioner vulnerability: avoiding psychological errors -- Knowing the opposition -- A protective shield for professional services -- The practice context -- Business savvy: structuring and operating a mental health business -- Dealing with attorneys and the legal system -- Threatening and dangerous service users -- Appropriate defensiveness -- Avoiding ethical and licensing complaints and legal challenges
N2  - At some point in their careers, mental health professionals may face legal action from clients. Clients may be noncompliant regarding policies agreed upon at the outset of therapeutic services, not adhere to an individualized treatment plan, be inappropriately aggressive, and file unjustified ethics and licensing complaints and/or lawsuits. Unfortunately, many mental health practitioners are not prepared for such actions and suffer great distress that affects their professional and personal lives. This practical text, written by an author who is both a psychologist and an attorney, demonstrate
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