title: Ethical issues in community psychiatry.
abstract: In delivering mental health services, community psychiatry operates under two contracts: one between the community and the provider of services and one between the provider of services and the individual or organization requesting them. Each party in the contract has a system of ethics and values that determines its conception of what services should be available and how they should be delivered. Often there are conflicts. Using case studies from a community mental health center, the authors discuss many of the conflicts and ways of resolving them.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003158:Community Psychiatry; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012945:Social Values