Welcome.
The ScattergoodEthics Program
elevates the conversation about
ethical issues in behavioral health care.
Research
We leverage the latest medical ethics research to inform mental health policy and practice.
Education
We train a new generation of bioethicists and behavioral health professionals in bioethics theory and practice.
Service Delivery
We offer ethics consultation services to mental health researchers and clinicians.
Our Priorities
Mental Illness & Criminal Justice
Mental illness has been criminalized. This research explores ethics in correctional psychiatry and mental health courts.
Psychiatric Nosology
What is a mental disorder? Discover projects on psychiatric categories, diagnoses, and the ethical implications thereof.
Psychedelic Medicine
We are in the mist of a psychedelics renaissance. This may bring novel ways to treat mental illness and human suffering, but also new ethical challenges.
Public Mental Health
The pandemic revealed gaps across all of mental healthcare and an urgent need for a comprehensive public mental health infrastructure. Learn more.
Social Media & AI
We are uncovering how algorithmic bias effects behavioral health, from internet based addictions to contagions of mental illness.
Latest Research
Psychiatric Services
Read this entryJournal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Read this entryHastings Center Report
- Daniel Rosenbaum
- Crystal Hare
- Emma Hapke
- Yarissa Herman
- Susan Abbey
- Dominic Sisti, PhD
- Daniel Buchman