Ethics, treatment and consent.
This article highlights notable developments in consent in psychiatry over the last year. In particular, it identifies increasingly sophisticated conceptualizations of consent and competence, and discusses advances in the process of decision-making and informed consent to non-treatment areas within psychiatry.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. mona.gupta@utoronto.ca
D024362:Advance Directive Adherence; D016223:Advance Directives; D003068:Coercion; D003657:Decision Making; D004644:Emotions; D036262:Empirical Research; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology; D016743:Mental Competency; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000941:ethics; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D033283:Patient Access to Records / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017236:Suicide, Assisted; D016312:Treatment Refusal