Browsing by keyword "*Patient Advocacy"
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At the margins of human rights and psychiatric care in North AmericaThe roots and expanse of the rights of psychiatric patients in North America are broad and diverse. This paper focuses on four rights that are pushing at the contemporary margins of patients' rights. First, the right to treatment, a moral position casting about for legal grounding. Second, the rights of psychiatrically hospitalized patients, articulated in statutes, court decisions, organizational standards and patients' bills of right. Third, patient participation in treatment planning, a process involving both rights and responsibilities. Fourth, the right to involuntary outpatient treatment, a process sometimes viewed as a deprivation of and other times as an expansion of rights for patients. These rights are addressed in the context of the question, are we going in the proper direction?
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Between a rock and a soft place: developmental research and the child advocacy processDevelopmental researchers face a perilous path as they set out to perform research with child advocacy potential. We offer our observations regarding how researchers can navigate the path between science (the "rock") and advocacy (the "soft place"), based on our recent experience as directors of the MacArthur Juvenile Adjudicative Competence Study. Scientific research can be extraordinarily effective in the child advocacy process, but science and advocacy are very different endeavors. Scientific credibility demands impartiality, whereas advocacy is never impartial. For psychological scientists to be effective in conducting research relevant to child advocacy, it is important to maintain our identity as scientists and resist any efforts on the part of others to label this work as advocacy.
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Developmental Research and the Child Advocacy ProcessThis text is excerpted from Grisso, T., & Steinberg, L. (2005). Between a rock and a soft place: Developmental research and the child advocacy process. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 34, 619-627.
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Ethical and legal duties in conducting research on violence: lessons from the MacArthur Risk Assessment StudyThis article addresses the ethical and legal duties that must be confronted in any study of the risk of interpersonal violence in the community. Ongoing research--the MacArthur Risk Assessment Study--on the markers of violence among released mental patients is taken as illustrative. Methods by which the researchers are discharging their legal and ethical duties are described and justified. Strategies center around the duty to protect research subjects from their own violence, and the duties to protect research staff and third parties from subjects' violence. By airing these rarely discussed issues, the authors hope to initiate a professional dialogue on crucial ethical and legal aspects of the research process.
