Legal Frontiers in Prison Group Psychotherapy

Legal Frontiers in Prison Group Psychotherapy

Dementia in prison: ethical and legal implications.

As the number of elderly prisoners increases in the UK and other Western countries, there will be individuals who develop dementia whilst in custody. We present two case vignettes of men with dementia in English prisons, and explore some of the ethical implications that their continuing detention raises. We find little to support their detention in the various purposes of prison put forward by ...

Cognitive Group Psychotherapy in Patients with Tuberculosis

Objective: Dysfunctional beliefs of tuberculosis patients have pivotal role in treatment and development of their serious psychiatric problems. Cognitive group psychotherapy has been utilized to manage the dysfunctional beliefs. Methods: In a quasi-experimental study and a pretest and posttest design, 24 male tubercular patients were selected by convenient sampling and then randomly assigned...

Current Frontiers in Legal Drafting Systems

Most legal tasks involve document preparation. Drafting effective texts is central to lawyering, judging, legislating, and regulating. How best to support that work with intelligent tools is an ancient topic in AI-and-Law circles. This article surveys the history and current state of document drafting software and associated theory. Present frontiers in both of those fields are identified, and ...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychotherapy

INTRODUCTION Psychotherapy is defined differently by various authors. However, the most complete definition of psychotherapy as given by Wolberg defines it as “a treatment, by psychological means, of problems of an emotional nature in which a trained person deliberately establishes a professional relationship with the patient with the objective of removing, modifying or retarding existing sympt...