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Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding Of Informed Consent With Adolescents, Blanca I. Santana
Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding Of Informed Consent With Adolescents, Blanca I. Santana
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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.
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 …