Ethical issues in forensic psychiatry : minimizing harm /

• Main Author: Sadoff, Robert L., 1936-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baird, John A.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, England : John Wiley, 2011.
• Subjects: Forensic psychiatry > Moral and ethical aspects.; Forensic Psychiatry > ethics.; Medicine.; Health.; Electronic books.

Ethical medical practice and treatment in psychiatry are based on the concept of first do no harm. However, this cannot, and does not, apply to forensic cases where there is no doctor-patient relationship and the forensic psychiatrist may indeed cause harm to the examinee. In this book, Robert Sadof...

Table of Contents:

• Ethical issues in forensic psychiatry in the United States
• Minimizing harm : a perspective from forensic psychiatry in the U.K. (by John A. Baird)
• Ethics and human rights in forensic psychiatry in Europe (by Emanuele Valenti)
• The forensic psychiatric examination
• The forensic psychiatric report
• Expert psychiatric testimony
• Children and adolescents, the elderly
• The mentally retarded, and severely mentally disabled
• The victims and predators of sexual violence
• Immigrants : a vulnerable population (by Solange Margery)
• Prisoners and death row inmates
• The forensic expert : risks and liability
• Risks of harm to the forensic expert : the legal perspective (by Donna L. Vanderpool).