Clinical Psychiatry and the Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781585621675)

Updates to this edition:

- Clinical and legal issues in the use of clozapine in treatment of schizophrenia
- Clinical information and new cases involving tardive dyskinesia
- Changes in civil and criminal law regarding right to refuse treatment
- An update of clinical guidelines and legal regulations of ECT
- An update on suicide risk assessment and new legal cases involving suicide
- An update on violence risk assessment and new legal cases involving the duty to protect endangered third parties
- New statutes and criminal sanctions regarding sexual misconduct
- New statutes limiting the liability of therapists toward third parties who are injured or killed by patients
- Changes in the relationship between psychiatrists and nonmedical therapists
- Regulatory developments regarding physician impairment
- Numerous tables and an updated glossary of legal terms
- New section on common terms and abbreviations in legal citations