The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Informed Consent with Adolescents
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of informed consent on the delivery of psychiatric services to adolescents and the way in which mental health practitioners understand and address informed consent in their treatment of adolescents. A key focus of this study examined how informed consent influenced adolescent mental health utilization and retention.</p> <p>The study sought to explore the following questions: (1) How do practitioners understand adolescent informed consent? (2) How does informed consent affect adolescent access to mental health treatment and utilization as perceived by practitioners? (3) How do practitioners understand and describe the impact informed consent has on adolescent engagement in mental health treatment? (4) How do practitioners experience the ramifications of informed consent in building a therapeutic relationship with adolescents?</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Social Welfare
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Santana, Blanca I
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Manny J. Gonzalez
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Roderick Watts
- Mary Cavanaugh
Subjects
dc:subject × 8Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1349
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-2371