Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment

Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment

Author: Thomas Grisso

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780195103724

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This is a concise guidebook to the assessment of patients' capacities to consent to treatment. It will help clinicians focus on the abilities that are relevant to legal definitions of competence to consent to medical and psychological treatment. With excellent case vignettes, the authors show how the interview process is carried out and offer strategies for responding to patients with limited capacities.


Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment

Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment

Author: Thomas Grisso

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780197705667

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This work translates the complex issues surrounding competence to consent to treatment for health professionals. The authors describe the place of competence in the doctrine of informed consent and explain how the assessment should be managed.


MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T)

MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T)

Author: Thomas Grisso

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781568870410

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The MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T) is the product of an 8-year study of patients' capacities to make treatment decisions. It is a semi-structured interview that assists clinicians in assessing a patient's competence to consent to treatment. The process provides a patient with information about their medical/psychiatric condition, the type of treatment being recommended, its risks and benefits, as well as other possible treatments and their probable consequences. During this process, the MacCAT-T prompts the clinician to ask questions that assess the patient's understanding, appreciation, and reasoning regarding treatment decisions.The MacCAT-T Manual is a large-format, examiner-friendly field manual for conducting actual competency assessments. The MacCAT-T Record Form is well designed for recording, rating, and summarizing patient responses. The training videotape, Administering the MacCAT-T, demonstrates an actual administration of the test with discussion, comments, and annotations by Drs. Grisso and Appelbaum.The book, Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment, describes the place of competence in the doctrine of informed consent, analyzes the elements of decision making, and shows how assessments of competence to consent to treatment can be conducted within varied general medical and psychiatric treatment settings. Includes numerous case studies.


Children’s Rights in Health Care

Children’s Rights in Health Care

Author: Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 675

ISBN-13: 9004327576

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While coordinating the University of Groningen’s Honours College Winterschool/Atelier entitled Children's Rights in Health Care, the need to publish the contributions to this program was generally expressed and confirmed by its participants. The Winterschool/Atelier, successfully organized in recent years, has dealt with many issues concerning the legal position of minor persons – born and unborn – in the context of health care, especially pediatric care. These issues involve matters concerning pediatric treatment, preventive care and predictive medicine, medical research involving children, incompetence and child autonomy, a child’s psychological development, parental responsibility and representation, protective judicial measures, child migration issues, children’s health rights enforcement as well as children’s health interest monitoring and promotion. During the program, leading experts in the fields of law, ethics, medicine, biology, psychology and institutions such as the Dutch Child & Hospital Foundation, the Child Protection Board, Save the Children, and UNICEF shared their views on normative standards, practical experiences, significant developments, challenging ideas, silent dreams and inevitable realities. As a result, the Children's Rights in Health Care program provided opportunities for a profound dialogue between Honours College students and lecturing scholars on a wide range of topics involving children’s health care interests. This volume contains several analyses of health rights issues related to children. The various chapters provide an overview of this captivating area and may be of special interest to lawyers, health care professionals, ethicists, psychologists, judicial institutions, policy makers, interest groups, students and all others who are concerned with the children’s rights perspective on health care.


MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR)

MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR)

Author: Paul S. Appelbaum

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781568870717

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The MacCAT-CR provides a structured format for capacity assessment that is adaptable to the particulars of any given research project. With the introduction of the MacCAT-CR, researchers enrolling human participants in their studieshave available for the first time a reliable and valid means of assessing their potential subject's capacity to consent to participation. The MacCAT-CR can typically be administered in 15-20 minutes. Beginning with project-specific disclosures to potential participants, the MacCAT-CR measures the four generally accepted components of decision-making competence: understanding, appreciation, reasoning, and the ability to express a choice. Quantification of subjects' responses permits comparisons across subjects and subject groups, and allows the MacCAT-CR to be used for not only for screening individual participants but also for conducting research on the characteristics of subject populations and for assessing the effectiveness of interventions designed to increase subjects' capacities.


A History and Theory of Informed Consent

A History and Theory of Informed Consent

Author: Ruth R. Faden

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0195036867

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A timely, authoritative discussion of an important clincial topic, this useful book outlines the history, function, nature and requirements of informed consent, focusing on patient autonomy as central to the concept. Primarily a philosophical analysis, the book also covers legal aspects, with chapters on disclosure, comprehension, and competence.


The Belmont Report

The Belmont Report

Author: United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13:

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Evaluating Competencies

Evaluating Competencies

Author: Thomas Grisso

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-27

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0306479222

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This book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in this second edition are new.


Deciding for Others

Deciding for Others

Author: Allen E. Buchanan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780521311960

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This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent problems in bioethics: decision-making for incompetents.