G Andrew H Benjamin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4088930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Andrew H Benjamin |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Andrew H |
| FAMILY NAME | Benjamin |
| SIGNATURE | BENJAMIN G A H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0481-5923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Suicide and the Law: A Practical Overview for Mental Health Professionals
The purpose of this chapter is to delineate how mental health professionals can prevent their clients from acting in a suicidal manner while protecting themselves against potential liability when a client attempts or completes suicide. In our increasingly litigious society mental health professionals can apply their understanding about the elements of legal liability in cases involving client suicidal behaviors to structure their services in a ma…
Requests for physician-assisted death: Guidelines for assessing mental capacity and impaired judgment
This article fills a need in the theoretical and clinical literature by presenting a set of guidelines for assessing mental capacity and impaired judgment when a person makes a request to have physician-assisted death. Because Oregon is the only state to have a law allowing physician-assisted death, the guidelines are placed within the context of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. A comprehensive overview of the legal and ethical issues associate…
Guidelines for assessments: Reactions to the commentators
In this short article, the authors respond to the critiques of the four commentators on the original "Guidelines" article. They highlight areas of agreement and disagreement with the other authors in an effort to move the discussion forward
A continued debate about hastened death
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act has changed the nature of the discussion and debate surrounding hastened death. After considering how the Act has been implemented, the clinical, policy, and research implications of physician-assisted suicide or physician-assisted death are introduced. This brief article, and the special theme issue of Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, present the opposing viewpoints on this issue
Guidelines for assessments: Reactions to the commentators
A continued debate about hastened death
Parents' Responses to the Death of Adult Children from Accidents and Cancer: A Comparison
Parents who lose adult children in traffic accidents are different from parents who lose adult children from cancer. Accident parents tend to be middle-aged and their children young adults at the time of death. They also tend to have more psychiatric distress and more health complaints than cancer parents. Cancer parents are usually older with children who are middle aged at the time of death, and these parents tend to experience the loss less pa…
Developmental Differences in Infants and Policy on Undocumented Mexican American Parents
The development of United States citizen infants with undocumented alien parents (UDOC, N = 24) was compared with the development of infants with documented alien or Hispanic American parents (DOC, N = 47). To assess the developmental differences, a closed-end demographic and environmental variab-le questionnaire and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) were used. Most of the demographic and environmental variables which could have infl…
A continued debate about hastened death
Developmental Differences in Infants and Policy on Undocumented Mexican American Parents
The development of United States citizen infants with undocumented alien parents (UDOC, N = 24) was compared with the development of infants with documented alien or Hispanic American parents (DOC, N = 47). To assess the developmental differences, a closed-end demographic and environmental variab-le questionnaire and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) were used. Most of the demographic and environmental variables which could have infl…
Developmental Differences in Infants and Policy on Undocumented Mexican American Parents
The development of United States citizen infants with undocumented alien parents (UDOC, N = 24) was compared with the development of infants with documented alien or Hispanic American parents (DOC, N = 47). To assess the developmental differences, a closed-end demographic and environmental variab-le questionnaire and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) were used. Most of the demographic and environmental variables which could have infl…
Parents' Responses to the Death of Adult Children from Accidents and Cancer: A Comparison
Parents who lose adult children in traffic accidents are different from parents who lose adult children from cancer. Accident parents tend to be middle-aged and their children young adults at the time of death. They also tend to have more psychiatric distress and more health complaints than cancer parents. Cancer parents are usually older with children who are middle aged at the time of death, and these parents tend to experience the loss less pa…
Requests for physician-assisted death: Guidelines for assessing mental capacity and impaired judgment
This article fills a need in the theoretical and clinical literature by presenting a set of guidelines for assessing mental capacity and impaired judgment when a person makes a request to have physician-assisted death. Because Oregon is the only state to have a law allowing physician-assisted death, the guidelines are placed within the context of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act. A comprehensive overview of the legal and ethical issues associate…
Guidelines for assessments: Reactions to the commentators
In this short article, the authors respond to the critiques of the four commentators on the original "Guidelines" article. They highlight areas of agreement and disagreement with the other authors in an effort to move the discussion forward
A continued debate about hastened death
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act has changed the nature of the discussion and debate surrounding hastened death. After considering how the Act has been implemented, the clinical, policy, and research implications of physician-assisted suicide or physician-assisted death are introduced. This brief article, and the special theme issue of Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, present the opposing viewpoints on this issue
Guidelines for assessments: Reactions to the commentators
A continued debate about hastened death
Suicide and the Law: A Practical Overview for Mental Health Professionals
The purpose of this chapter is to delineate how mental health professionals can prevent their clients from acting in a suicidal manner while protecting themselves against potential liability when a client attempts or completes suicide. In our increasingly litigious society mental health professionals can apply their understanding about the elements of legal liability in cases involving client suicidal behaviors to structure their services in a ma…
Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (3 works) · Counseling Practices and Supervision (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)