Empiric Ethics Views in Mental Health and Psychiatric Care

Abstract

The meaning of empirical knowledge in ethics has been debated from the past. Empirical ethics, which is a combination of social science and normative ethics, generally means social science research. Empirical ethics, which is also defined as an integrated form of ethical analysis and empirical research, enriches the discussions by clarifying the dilemmas faced by nurses in care services offered to individuals with mental health problems. In this context, studies combined with empirical ethics in mental health and psychiatric care are quite insufficient. In this article, it is aimed to define empirical ethics and discuss it in Turkey studies that can be defined as empirical ethical research conducted in the fields of psychiatric care.

Keywords

• psychiatric nursing
• ethics
• empirics ethics