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Informed Consent in Decision-Making in Pediatric Practice COMMITTEE ON BIOETHICS in Pediatrics August 2016. Informed consent should be seen as an essential part of health care practice; parental permission and childhood assent is an active process that engages patients, both adults and children, in health care. (free access to the pdf of this article.)
Informed consent with children and adolescents. Coffman, C., & Barnett, J. E. (2015, October). [Web article]. Retrieved from: http://www.societyforpsychotherapy.org/informed-consent-with-children-and-adolescents. Informed consent lays the foundation for the psychotherapy relationship and treatment to come in respecting the client’s legal rights and offering her or him the opportunity to make an informed decision about participating in the treatment to be offered.
Research Ethics 2020 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Research involving human subjects raises ethical challenges that are distinct from those encountered in clinical medicine. These challenges stem from differences in the purposes of medical care and clinical research.
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights UNESCO 2005 Full text available at http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31058&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html universal standards in the field of bioethics with due regard for human dignity and human rights and freedoms, in the spirit of cultural pluralism inherent in bioethics