title: Ethical issues in the behavioral treatment of children and adolescents.
abstract: This article addresses a need to assess the acceptibility 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.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Freitas
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Pieranunzi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D032763:Behavior Control; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D026686:Beneficence; D002648:Child; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010358:Patient Participation; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012945:Social Values