The Moral Dimension of Mental Health Treatment.

Journal: Journal of psychiatric practice

Volume: 30

Issue: 2

Year of Publication: 2024

Affiliated Institutions:  PETEET: Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Abstract summary 

Patients regularly bring value-laden concerns to treatment, but clinicians are often unsure about what role to play in their patients' moral lives. Addressing problems in moral functioning depends on assessing how individuals are accomplishing basic moral tasks: developing moral commitments, making moral decisions, implementing these decisions, assessing the correspondence between their ideals and behavior, dealing effectively with moral failure, and developing morally admirable character traits, or virtues. Clarity about the moral dimension of clinical work is important for shaping the direction of treatment, achieving clinical aims, and engaging the moral challenges that clinicians face.

Authors & Co-authors:  Peteet

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Citations :  Gilligan C. In a Different Voice. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press; 1982.
Authors :  1
Identifiers
Doi : 10.1097/PRA.0000000000000775
SSN : 1538-1145
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Humans
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Publication Country
United States