Dealing with sexual boundary violation in mental healthcare institutions by government policies: the case of Flanders, Belgium

Abstract Background To prevent sexual boundary violations (SBV) in mental health care institutions overall governments require these institutions to report SBV incidents to a central registry and to develop institutional guidelines how to react. In Europe SBV policies are only recently developed or...

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Main Authors: Lara Vesentini, Kim Dewilde, Frieda Matthys, Dirk De Wachter, Hubert Van Puyenbroeck, Johan Bilsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-022-00778-9