Overview

At long last, a book devoted exclusively to the dilemma of physician sexual misconduct. Physician Sexual Misconduct results from years of work with physicians guilty of sexual misconduct and the patients they mistreated. With this comprehensive reference tool, users will come miles closer to understanding and preventing incidents of this unprofessional behavior. It provides insight into all of the dimensions associated with this terrible occurrence: legal, ethical, administrative, educational and rehabilitative, including • Civil and criminal laws governing sexual misconduct • Problems associated with insurance coverage of sexual misconduct • The American Psychiatric Association's and American Medical Association's policies addressing this issue • The Medical Boards' role in policing the problem • Models for rehabilitation of physician-offenders • A sample outline for teaching medical students about the ethical problem of physician sexual misconduct With this resource available, no health professional need feel uninformed about the problem of sexually abusive practitioners.

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Author:   Joseph D. Bloom, MD (University of Oregon HSC ) ,  Carol C. Nadelson, MD (Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ) ,  Malkah T. Notman
Publisher:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9780880487061

ISBN 10:   0880487062
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   31 July 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword. Section I: Forensic Issues. Issues in civil sexual misconduct litigation. There oughta be a law : criminalization of psychotherapist-patient sex as a social policy dilemma. Insurance coverage for undue familiarity: law, policy, and economic reality. Section II: Ethical and Regulatory Issues. Sexual misconduct, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Medical Association: ethics and practice. Sexual misconduct and boards of medical examiners. Sexual misconduct: the Canadian experience. Section III: Physician Education. Prevention of sexual misconduct at the medical school, residency, and practitioner levels. Section IV: Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Issues. Sexual misconduct and the victim/survivor: a look from the inside out. Psychodynamic approaches to physician sexual misconduct. Cognitive-behavioral treatment of sexual misconduct. Psychotherapy with patients who have had sexual relations with a previous therapist. Index.

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I believe that this book is well worth reading by psychiatrists, ethics committee and licensing board member, psychiatric residents, and all those whose work impinges on the inormation it contains. -- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

I believe that this book is well worth reading by psychiatrists, ethics committee and licensing board member, psychiatric residents, and all those whose work impinges on the inormation it contains. - The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Author Information

Joseph D. Bloom, M.D., is Dean of the School of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. Carol C. Nadelson, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Malkah T. Notman, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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