TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ash, Peter
TI  - From courtroom to clinic: legal cases that changed mental
SN  - 9781108432658
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - Legislation
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Law
N2  - Why do present-day mental health professionals practice the way that they do? Over the past fifty years, a number of landmark court holdings have changed such basic principles as what material is confidential, how civil commitment and involuntary treatment are conducted, and when a therapist has a duty to protect the public from a dangerous patient. Unlike most legal texts, this volume explores these complex principles through the human stories of the litigants involved
ER  -