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dc.contributor.authorGrisso, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorAppelbaum, Paul S.
dc.date2022-08-11T08:10:27.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T17:09:18Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T17:09:18Z
dc.date.issued1998-01-01
dc.date.submitted2010-09-28
dc.identifier.citationGrisso, T., & Appelbaum, P. (1998). Assessing competence to consent to treatment: A guide for physicians and other health care professionals. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195103726, 9780195103724. Preview available via Google Books.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45786
dc.description.abstractSummary: One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. The protection of a patient's right to decide, as well as the protection of incompetent patients from the potential harm of their decisions, rests largely on clinicians' abilities to judge patients' capacities to decide what treatment they will receive. However, confusing laws and the complicated ethical issues surrounding the concept of competence to consent have made the process of competence assessment intimidating for many clinicians. Health professionals--physicians, medical students, residents, nurses, and mental health practitioners--have long needed a concise guidebook that translates the issues for practice. That is what this book accomplishes. This volume is the product of an eight-year study of patients' capacities to make treatment decisions--the most comprehensive research of its kind. The authors describe the place of competence in the doctrine of informed consent, analyze the elements of decision-making, and show how assessments of competence to consent to treatment can be conducted within varied general medical and psychiatric treatment settings. The book explains how assessments should be conducted and offers detailed, practice-tested interview guidelines to assist medical practitioners in this task. Numerous case studies illustrate real-life applications of the concepts and methods discussed. Grisso and Appelbaum also explore the often difficult process of making judgments about competence and describe what to do when patients' capacities are limited. Winner of the American Psychiatric Association's Guttmacher Award, 2000. Preview available via Google Books.
dc.language.isoen_US
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dc.subjectInformed Consent
dc.subjectForensic Psychiatry
dc.subjectMental Competency
dc.subjectPsychological Tests
dc.subjectPsychiatry
dc.titleAssessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals
dc.typeBook
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_pp/314
dc.identifier.contextkey1584185
html.description.abstract<p>Summary: One of the most challenging tasks facing clinicians today is the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. The protection of a patient's right to decide, as well as the protection of incompetent patients from the potential harm of their decisions, rests largely on clinicians' abilities to judge patients' capacities to decide what treatment they will receive. However, confusing laws and the complicated ethical issues surrounding the concept of competence to consent have made the process of competence assessment intimidating for many clinicians. Health professionals--physicians, medical students, residents, nurses, and mental health practitioners--have long needed a concise guidebook that translates the issues for practice. That is what this book accomplishes. This volume is the product of an eight-year study of patients' capacities to make treatment decisions--the most comprehensive research of its kind. The authors describe the place of competence in the doctrine of informed consent, analyze the elements of decision-making, and show how assessments of competence to consent to treatment can be conducted within varied general medical and psychiatric treatment settings. The book explains how assessments should be conducted and offers detailed, practice-tested interview guidelines to assist medical practitioners in this task. Numerous case studies illustrate real-life applications of the concepts and methods discussed. Grisso and Appelbaum also explore the often difficult process of making judgments about competence and describe what to do when patients' capacities are limited. Winner of the American Psychiatric Association's Guttmacher Award, 2000. Preview available via Google Books.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathpsych_pp/314
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Psychiatry


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