Confidentiality and psychiatric practice

Confidentiality and paediatric practice.

The 1984 Data Protection Act, which regulates the use of automatically processed personal information, has serious implications for medical practice. In response to the Act the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) set up an interprofessional working group to prepare a draft Code on the confidentiality of personal health information held in the National Health Service, which has been ...

Eliciting confidentiality requirements in practice

Confidentiality, the protection of unauthorized disclosure of information, plays an important role in information security of software systems. Security researchers have developed numerous approaches on how to implement confidentiality, typically based on cryptographic algorithms and tight access control. However, less work has been done on defining systematic methods on how to elicit and defin...

Ideology, psychiatric practice and professionalism.

Psychiatry, associated as it is with social and cultural factors, has undergone profound changes over the last 50 years. Values, attitudes, beliefs and ideology all influence psychiatry. Deinstitutionalisation, the normalization principle, advocacy, empowerment and the recovery model are ideologies that have been closely associated with policy, service developments and clinical practice in psyc...

Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing

Psychiatric Complications of Meditation Practice

One of the more widespread examples of modern adaptations of traditional consciousness training practices is the recent popularity of age-old meditation techniques among both the lay public and workers in the mental health field (Marmor 1980; Walsh, 1980). This comes at a time of relative estrangement between psychiatric and religious ideologies (Bergin, 1980)producing a conceptual gap that thr...