Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: mapping the territory
- 1 The ethical importance of boundaries to intimacy
- 2 The patient's perspective: impact and treatment
- 3 Teaching ethics and ethical behaviour to medical students
- 4 With the benefit of hindsight: lessons from history
- 5 The prevalence of boundary violations between mental health professionals and their clients
- 6 Psychiatry: responding to the Kerr/Haslam Inquiry
- 7 The general practitioner and abuse in primary care
- 8 Boundaries and boundary violations in psychotherapy
- 9 Sexual therapies: ethical guidelines, vulnerabilities and boundaries
- 10 Obstetrics and gynaecology: a special case?
- 11 Nurses as abusers: a career perspective
- 12 Medical management: governance and sexual boundary issues
- 13 Dealing with offending doctors: sanctions and remediation
- 14 Defending doctors: the protection society's experience
- 15 Regulation and its capacity to minimise abuse by professionals
- 16 The role of the General Medical Council
- Appendix 1 Extract from Vulnerable Patients, Safe Doctors
- Appendix 2 Codes of ethics of psychiatric associations in other countries
- Appendix 3 Guidance from the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
- Appendix 4 Examples of determinations by the General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise panels
- Appendix 5 Website resources and information
- Index
15 - Regulation and its capacity to minimise abuse by professionals
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: mapping the territory
- 1 The ethical importance of boundaries to intimacy
- 2 The patient's perspective: impact and treatment
- 3 Teaching ethics and ethical behaviour to medical students
- 4 With the benefit of hindsight: lessons from history
- 5 The prevalence of boundary violations between mental health professionals and their clients
- 6 Psychiatry: responding to the Kerr/Haslam Inquiry
- 7 The general practitioner and abuse in primary care
- 8 Boundaries and boundary violations in psychotherapy
- 9 Sexual therapies: ethical guidelines, vulnerabilities and boundaries
- 10 Obstetrics and gynaecology: a special case?
- 11 Nurses as abusers: a career perspective
- 12 Medical management: governance and sexual boundary issues
- 13 Dealing with offending doctors: sanctions and remediation
- 14 Defending doctors: the protection society's experience
- 15 Regulation and its capacity to minimise abuse by professionals
- 16 The role of the General Medical Council
- Appendix 1 Extract from Vulnerable Patients, Safe Doctors
- Appendix 2 Codes of ethics of psychiatric associations in other countries
- Appendix 3 Guidance from the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
- Appendix 4 Examples of determinations by the General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise panels
- Appendix 5 Website resources and information
- Index
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- Abuse of the Doctor-Patient Relationship , pp. 177 - 189Publisher: Royal College of PsychiatristsFirst published in: 2017