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Ethics in Community Mental Health Care is a special section withinCommunity Mental Health Journal designed to remind our readers about special problems which accompany the delivery of care to our clients.
Patricia Backlar is a senior scholar at the Center for Ethics in Health Care and Adjunct Senior Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Sciences University, and Senior Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy, Portland State University. She is appointed by President Clinton to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. She is also the mother of a son with mental illness, and is a member of the board of the National Community Mental Healthcare Council. Anyone wishing to write to her or submit a philosophical or ethical piece to this special section should write to Patricia Backlar, Department of Philosophy, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland Oregon 97207.
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Backlar, P. Confidentiality and common sense. Community Ment Health J 32, 513–518 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02251062
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