The Psychiatrist as Expert Witness, Second Edition, by Dr. Gutheil, is a highly readable and practical update of his successful first edition. The focus of the new volume is to guide readers to become, improve, and successfully market a career as a psychiatric expert witness.
Be prepared for the complexities of healthcare practice today! Meet the legal and ethical challenges you will face as a healthcare professional in ambulatory outpatient and clinical settings. The 8th Edition of this popular text guides you through legal concepts and the law, important ethical issues, and the emerging area of bioethics to prepare ......
Volume 1: Foundations and Context of Health Psychology; Volume 2: Clinical Interventions and Disease Management in Health Psychology; Volume 3: Health Psychology and Public Health
The 3-volume APA Handbook of Health Psychology describes in detail the basic foundations and context of health psychology, major issues in health psychology relating to public health and disease prevention, and major clinical approaches to health psychology. Volume 1, Foundations and Context of Health Psychology explores the conceptual ......
Very few topics in global health have been as controversial as primary health care. In this book the authors explain what it takes to reimagine primary health care in the 21st century, an era of increased rapidly changing health care needs, population expectations, availability of financial and human resources, and digital technology.
As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a resident's ability to express needs and desires. But how do you recognize what physical and social changes will help improve functioning, communication, and quality of life? The Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit (ECAT) for ......
How People of Faith Can Respond to Our Broken Health System
Our health system doesn't work for the most vulnerable. It's time for people of faith to respond with concrete action to demonstrate God's love and effect real change. Here's how. The dialogue on how to fix US health care is mired in partisan policy debates. Rather than idly waiting for the gridlock to resolve, people of faith can live into ......
Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State
Introduces a vision for the future of health equity and explains practical policy measures for how to achieve it. Health inequity is one of the defining problems of our time. But current efforts to address the problem focus on mitigating the harms of injustice rather than confronting injustice itself. Ultimately, this only makes the problem ......
Recovering the foundation of faith in a profession enduring the pressures of a rapidly changing health-care system. If you are one of the millions of Christian nurses or nursing students in the United States, you already know that there is no real way to separate your faith commitments from your professional vocation--nor would you want to. ......
Reconciling Law, Science, and Professional Knowledge
This book examines the use of expert testimony across the legal system, including the issues faced by mental health professionals when they are called upon to serve as expert witnesses.
