CONSULTATION-LIAISON PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL ETHICS - REPRESENTATIVE CASES

Authors
POWELL T
Citation
T. Powell, CONSULTATION-LIAISON PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL ETHICS - REPRESENTATIVE CASES, Psychosomatics, 38(4), 1997, pp. 321-326
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry,Psychology
Journal title
Psychosomatics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00333182
Volume
38
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
321 - 326
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-3182(1997)38:4<321:CPACE->2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
The skills of the consultation-liaison psychiatrist are enormously val uable in the emerging field of clinical ethics consultation. Expertise in evaluating decision-making capacity is crucial, as is the larger i ssue of addressing the role that emotional factors play in making life or death decisions. Three cases are reviewed that illustrate the way in which the psychiatric perspective enhances the process of clinical ethics consultation.