Ethics in community mental health care

Abstract

Ethics in Community Mental Health Care is a special section within Community Mental Health Journal designed to remind our readers about special problems which accompany the delivery of care to our clients. We are particularly concerned in the 1990's because of the powerful changes on the horizon regarding funding. This section should create some anxiety and perhaps some questions about what we are doing and how we are doing it. We would appreciate hearing from our readers regarding these topics. Patricia Backlar is a senior scholar at the Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health Sciences University, and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Philosophy, Portland State University. She was born in England, was educated at Vassar College and Yale University, is 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.