1. Emerging Issues in Child Psychiatry and the Law
- Author
-
Christopher H. Hodgman
- Subjects
Value (ethics) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Explication ,Ethical issues ,Child psychiatrists ,business.industry ,Law ,Malpractice ,Psychological intervention ,Child and adolescent psychiatry ,Medicine ,General Medicine ,business - Abstract
In the six years since the authors' Child Psychiatry and the Law , much has occurred in the child forensic field. The value of their present text, however, is less in its currency—although many of its references date from the last year or two—and more in its broad overview of the topic. Indeed, my only quibble is that the book's title implies much less than it delivers: a seasoned summary of forensic child psychiatry as it currently exists in all its complexities. This is an era in which malpractice suits are finally confronting child psychiatrists, diagnostic techniques are increasingly complex, new psychopharmacologic interventions entail new complications, and increasing surveillance and demands are coupled with increasing insistence on short hospital stays. Schetky and Benedek have assembled an all-star cast, the members of which write well and whose case reports enliven their content. An interesting preliminary explication of the ethical issues underlying the
- Published
- 1986