Exploring Informed Consent

• What is the purpose of informed consent?
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• What are the main components of informed consent?
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• Research psychiatric mental health/psychotherapy/and or counseling clinics and practices online. Share your findings. 
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• Post an example of the informed consent forms offered either on the website or in pdf format. If there is a link to the informed consent document, post that as well.

 use at least two references below and others from outside source

• American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
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• Corey, G. (2016). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (10th ed.). Cengage.
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• Shea, S. C. (2017). Psychiatric interviewing: The art of understanding (3rd ed.). Elsevier.
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• Carlat, D. (2017). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.