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Clients Without a Cause: Is There a Legal Right to Effective Treatment?

Portland State University

This article considers the legal right to effective treatment. Such a cause of action is distinguish able from the estabhshed right to treatment because the standard of care ensured by the latter is so minimal Tort law of negligence, law of the fiduciary, and contract law were explored. The outcome suggests there is little legal basis for social work to assume a right to effective treatment.

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 8, No. 5, 589-596 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/104973159800800507


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