What legal risks should mental health care providers take during disasters?

Psychiatry (New York)

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 323-330

  Howe, Edmund G ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COURT; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMOTION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOEDUCATION; RISK; STANDARD; TRAINING;

DISASTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LICENSURE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84872015393     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2012.75.4.323     Document Type: Article

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