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[Values under fire; ethics in forensic psychiatry]
Background:
Professionals in forensic psychiatry regularly face moral issues. For example, they have to make trade-offs between the treatment of a patient and society's security.
Aim:
To provide insight into some difficult, specifically forensic, dilemmas and show that forensic professionals benefit from structural ethics support.
Method:
Describing that ethics support, such as moral case deliberation, can provide support in making moral choices in forensic psychiatry.
Results:
By participating in moral case deliberation, considerations are better substantiated and employees learn from and with each other.
Conclusion:
Moral case deliberation supports staff in jointly reflecting on moral dilemmas of the (forensic) workplace.
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