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Overview
What are the facts about psychiatric malpractice? Is it increasing? If so, how rapidly? What areas of psychiatric practice pose higher risks of legal liability?
The anxieties and uncertainties created by the increased threat of being sued for malpractice can interfere with the psychiatrist's provision of good clinical care. Through a general overview -- as well as a discussion of specific legal cases -- this volume presents the major malpractice traps encountered in everyday psychiatric practice.
American Psychiatric Publishing
Addresses legal regulations, malpractice law & practical problems incl. suicide, violent patients, transference.
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Innovations & Research
It is a useful guide for psychiatrists, almost whatever their level of sophistication, about relevant legal issues.