Product Description

In this second edition the author emphasizes what people in the helping professions need to know about the law, so they can avoid, as he puts it, the "land mines" and understand how their treatment decisions are likely to have legal consequences. This book provides some coverage of criminal law, for instance how it relates to the criminally insane, but its primary focus is on how civil law, and particularly family law, influences clinical settings in the mental health profession.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3284036 in Books
• Published on: 1996-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 528 pages

Review
"The legal rules that have been imposed on mental health professionals are potentially dangerous to these practitioners. Mental health professionals need to know where the mines are and, just as importantly, where the safe paths are. . . . My goal is to make the rules explicit so that professionals will have more real freedom in their choices. Real choice means knowing the consequences likely to follow different courses of actions. . . . We can travel through a minefield if we have a map of the mines' locations. But if we only know that there are mines somewhere, we are likely to unnecessarily inhibit our opportunities."