Health Care Ethics for Psychologists: A Casebook Book

	Introduction : values and the practice of psychology	3
Ch. 1	Crisis and emergency care	9
Case 1.1	Do the rules still apply? : crisis response to 9/11	10
Case 1.2	Provider conflicts in managing mild traumatic brain injury	20
Case 1.3	Professional boundaries and the unwanted psychologist	28
Ch. 2	Acute care	39
Case 2.1	Managing documentation in the medical record : the impact of the health insurance portability and accountability act guidelines	40
Case 2.2	Truth telling : the disclosure of emotionally difficult information	50
Case 2.3	Malingering and the management of chronic pain	60
Case 2.4	Overriding treatment refusals during early recovery from catastrophic injury	69
Ch. 3	Inpatient rehabilitation	83
Case 3.1	Opportunities and challenges in using nonstandardized testing	84
Case 3.2	The overwhelmed psychologist's responsibility toward very sick patients	92
Case 3.3	Using placebos and deception in treatment	100
Case 3.4	When the team and family disagree : incorporating family beliefs and values into treatment	109
Case 3.5	Accommodating questionable patient preferences	117
Case 3.6	Responding to mixed messages about treatment refusal (continuation of the Fergus MacGonagle series)	126
Ch. 4	Outpatient services	139
Case 4.1	Managing a patient's risk-taking behavior	141
Case 4.2	Resolving requests for third-party observers	152
Case 4.3	Responding to patients working the system	161
Case 4.4	Return to work after catastrophic injury : implications of the Americans with disabilities act (conclusion of the Fergus MacGonagle series)	170
Ch. 5	Subacute and long-term care	181
Case 5.1	Serving the patient who is totally incapacitated	183
Case 5.2	Difficult behavior and the perception of incompetence	193
Case 5.3	Assent in decision making and the role of same-sex partners	204
Case 5.4	Quality of life and the right to die	212