Psychology Mat-6
4/7Please submit to your instructor a rough outline and include at least 5 representative references for the topic Anxiety Disorders in prison confinementThe Teacher’s Manual for our text recommends that you use this outline to think about the material in this chapter, which follows the “standard tort framework of duty, breach, causation, damanges, and defenses “(Reisner, Slobogin & Rai, 2004, Teacher’s Manual).Course text has to be incorporated1. Duty to disclose “material”. . .a. risksb. benefitsc. alternative treatments2. Breach – failure to disclose or inadequate disclosure3. Causation – undisclosed information would have caused patient to forgo treatment4. Damages – physical (and perhaps psychological) injury caused by the treatment, even if treatment is not negligently performed (and even if patient would have gotten worse without treatment)?5. Defensesa. emergency (rarely applicable in mental health treatment situations, as opposed to medical trauma cases)b. incompetency, unconsciousnessc. therapeutic exceptions in some jurisdictions (i.e., risks that information will be psychiatrically harmfuld. patient “waiver” in some jurisdictions (i.e., patient should have known of risks or patient indicated he/she didn’t want to know of them).(Outline quoted from Reisner, Slobogin, & Rai, 2004, Teacher’s Manual).