Ethics of Behavioral Health Care |
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September 10, 2013, Volume 60, No. 4 |
The Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care (ScattergoodEthics) —a research program within the department of medical ethics & health policy at the University of Pennsylvania—has received a $600,000, six-year grant from the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation to create and expand initiatives in the areas of ethics and policy of behavioral health care. This program will also be supported by a financial commitment from the department of medical ethics & health policy.
Funding will support work across the growing field of mental health care ethics and policy.
"We are extremely grateful to the Thomas Scattergood Foundation for its very generous support," said Dr. Dominic Sisti, assistant professor in the department of and director of ScattergoodEthics. "We are now positioned to play a leading role in examining ethical, philosophical and policy issues in behavioral health care – and to effect positive change for millions suffering from mental illness."
ScattergoodEthics is dedicated to education, research and resource development for the field of psychiatric, mental and behavioral health care ethics. It conducts scholarly research, trains and educates clinicians and scholars in mental and behavioral healthcare ethics, sponsors programs and public events and advocates for greater attention to the ethical dimensions of diagnosis and treatment.
"The future of American medicine will in large part be about preventing and managing chronic and psychosocial illness," said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the department of medical ethics and health policy and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor and Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at Penn Medicine. "We take seriously the need to study the ethical and policy dimensions of behavioral health care as an essential part of transforming the health care system." |