Ethical Dilemmas Of Informed Consent
Mental Health Professionals encounter many ethical questions and dilemmas of informed consent in their everyday practice, research, and teaching. It is imperative that those of us, who are trained to provide the most intimate of care to some of the most vulnerable individuals, understand our responsibility to ensure that the service which we provide is grounded in a sound and ethical framework.
1.1 Unethical characteristics
Although rarely mutually exclusive, attitudes of most mental health professionals who engage in questionable, unethical, or unprofessional behavior could be described as having one or more underlying characteristics (1):
Are ignorant or misinformed regarding the ethical standards of their profession;
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1.2 Clinical Trials in Psychiatry
Issues include newly used medication, Newly used measurement techniques, Newly used treatment tools, Clinical trials proposed as conventional treatment methods and misinformed patient groups, and Conventional diagnostic methods on irrelevant patient groups, for example.
1.3 Unethical Characteristics in Clinical Trials of EEG and neurosciences
Issues include Lack of “Informed Consent”, “Uninformed” or “Misinformed” consent, Impaired risk assessment, Questionable incentives such as “money.”, and Impaired and vulnerable subjects.
“…..There has been much discussion of late that confidence in medicine is being eroded. No less an authority than Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H), Bethesda, Maryland, has recently said that forty percent of science news relates to health and medicine and a gradual erosion of public trust is being observed. The main trust of this discussion is the ever profiteering drug industry, the ever loosening professional standards of the physician, and the standing and expectations from the state health authorities, i.e. the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), among
1.1 Unethical characteristics
Although rarely mutually exclusive, attitudes of most mental health professionals who engage in questionable, unethical, or unprofessional behavior could be described as having one or more underlying characteristics (1):
Are ignorant or misinformed regarding the ethical standards of their profession;
Practice outside …show more content…
1.2 Clinical Trials in Psychiatry
Issues include newly used medication, Newly used measurement techniques, Newly used treatment tools, Clinical trials proposed as conventional treatment methods and misinformed patient groups, and Conventional diagnostic methods on irrelevant patient groups, for example.
1.3 Unethical Characteristics in Clinical Trials of EEG and neurosciences
Issues include Lack of “Informed Consent”, “Uninformed” or “Misinformed” consent, Impaired risk assessment, Questionable incentives such as “money.”, and Impaired and vulnerable subjects.
“…..There has been much discussion of late that confidence in medicine is being eroded. No less an authority than Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H), Bethesda, Maryland, has recently said that forty percent of science news relates to health and medicine and a gradual erosion of public trust is being observed. The main trust of this discussion is the ever profiteering drug industry, the ever loosening professional standards of the physician, and the standing and expectations from the state health authorities, i.e. the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), among