To stay or to go, to speak or stay silent, to act or not to act: Moral distress as experienced by psychologists

Ethics and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 197-212

  Austin, Wendy ^a   Rankel, Marlene ^b   Kagan, Leon ^c   Bergum, Vangie ^a   Lemermeyer, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Capital Health Region ^*

^c 5 10 University Extension Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethics; Moral distress; Phenomenology; Psychologist

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; COMPLICITY; CONFLICT; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

CODES OF ETHICS; COMPLICITY; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 30544444090     PISSN: 10508422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb1503_1     Document Type: Article

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