Seminar Topic Ethical issues in contemporary psychiatry
Rapid developments in neuroscience, genetics, psychopharmacology, and psychosocial approaches to mental illness present multiple ethical challenges. In both clinical and academic psychiatry, contemporary ethical challenges include confidentiality of medical records, standards for informed consent, determinations of competency to consent to treatment, and risk/benefit analysis of treatment interventions. In recent years, the ethics and integrity of psychiatric research has been called into question by conflicts of interest created by the funding sources of that research. Meanwhile, on the clinical side of the field, psychiatrists confront the challenge of translating research findings on mental illness into individually tailored treatment plans for patients in their clinics. This seminar will explore a wide range of ethical dilemmas in current psychiatry and present a pragmatic model for managing these dilemmas in a patient-centered fashion.
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