Phillips- Legal and Ethical Issues
Legal & Ethical Issues for ADHD Legal and Ethical Concerns With ADHD being a well validated clinical diagnosis, it still remains a controversial disorder. With this being controversial, there is the continuing discussion of how the practice of ethical and legal are implemented within the clinical setting as far as diagnosis and treatment. Ethical and legal issues are important in determining how doctors should behave in offering a diagnosis or treatment that may generate strong and unpredictable reactions from children, their families, and other agencies (Foreman, 2006). Two areas that concern when it comes to the areas of ethical and legal concerns would be confidentiality and rights of consent. With confidentiality, the disclosure of information without consent may take place if there are concerns about child protection, lawbreaking, or harm to others, and there is also ‘‘catch-all’’ guidance that covers most situations where professionals need to communicate fort the good of the