Applied Ethics in Mental Health in Cuba: Part I-Guiding Concepts and Values

@article{Valds2002AppliedEI,
  title={Applied Ethics in Mental Health in Cuba: Part I-Guiding Concepts and Values},
  author={Laura S{\'a}nchez Vald{\'e}s and Isaac Prilleltensky and Richard Walsh-Bowers and Amy B. Rossiter},
  journal={Ethics \& Behavior},
  year={2002},
  volume={12},
  pages={223 - 242}
}
As part of a project on professionals' lived experience of ethics, this article explores the guiding concepts and values concerning ethics of mental health professionals in Cuba. The data, obtained through individual interviews and focus groups with 28 professionals, indicate that Cubans conceptualize applied ethics in terms of its central role in professional practice and its connection to the social context and subjective processes. Findings also show that Cuban professionals are guided not… 
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