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Therapeutic Privilege

Therapeutic Privilege is a clinical ethics concept referring to the discretionary withholding of information from a patient by a healthcare provider when disclosure is judged to cause serious harm to the patient’s well-being, distinguishing it from general confidentiality or paternalism by its specific justification in preventing imminent therapeutic detriment.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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Informed Consent Skills in Internal Medicine Residency: How Are Residents Taught, and What Do They Learn?

Karen McClean, Sharon E. Card · Academic Medicine · 2004 · 63 citations

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Therapeutic privilege: between the ethics of lying and the practice of truth: Figure 1

Claude Richard, Yvette Lajeunesse, Marie‐Thérèse Lussier · Journal of Medical Ethics · 2010 · 61 citations

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Report of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs: Withholding Information from Patients: Rethinking the Propriety of “Therapeutic Privilege”

Nathan A. Bostick, Robert M. Sade, John W. McMahon et al. · The Journal of Clinical Ethics · 2006 · 60 citations

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Prescription privileges for psychologists.

Patrick H. DeLeon, Jr. Wiggins Jack G. · American Psychologist · 1996 · 58 citations

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Tarasoff: protective privilege versus public peril

H Gurevitz · American Journal of Psychiatry · 1977 · 47 citations

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Authors

75

  1. EM
    Elaine M. Heiby

    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States

    4 publications · 96 citations

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  2. PH
    Patrick H. DeLeon

    American Psychological Association, United States

    3 publications · 109 citations

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  3. SC
    Steven C. Hayes

    University of Nevada, Reno, United States

    2 publications · 72 citations

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  4. GY
    Garland Y. DeNelsky

    Cleveland Clinic, United States

    1 publications · 29 citations

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  5. GH
    Genevieve Holt

    St George's Hospital, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 22 citations

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Institutions

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  1. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    49 citations

  2. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    20 citations

  3. St George's, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  4. Johns Hopkins Medicine

    Baltimore, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  5. American Medical Association

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    60 citations

  6. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  7. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  8. University of Houston - Clear Lake

    Houston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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  1. PubMed

    Repository · 8 publications · 149 citations

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  2. American Psychologist

    7 publications · 201 citations

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  3. Professional Psychology Research and Practice

    7 publications · 123 citations

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  4. Journal of Medical Ethics

    3 publications · 90 citations

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  5. Journal of Clinical Psychology

    2 publications · 29 citations

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