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Ethical Issues in the Behavioral Treatment of Children and Adolescents
Author(s) -
FREITAS LORRAINE,
MSN VINCENT R. PIERANUNZI.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.1990.tb00436.x
Subject(s) - beneficence , autonomy , psychological intervention , psychology , personal autonomy , psychotherapist , medicine , psychiatry , political science , law
This article addresses a need to assess the acceptability and evaluation of behavioral treatment as it is applied in child and adolescent inpatient settings. The choice of when and how to use behavioral interventions and the implications of these choices may present the nurse with certain ethical dilemmas related to ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and maleficence. In addition, the inpatient milieu structure is examined relative to possible ethical dilemmas.