DESCRIPTION:
The second edition of this award-winning textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout. Building on the success of the first edition, the book continues to address the History and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, Legal Regulation of the Practice of Psychiatry, Psychiatry in relation to Civil Law, Criminal Law, and Family Law. Important sections such as Special Issues in Forensic Psychiatry, Law and the Legal System, and Landmark Cases in Mental Health Law are included. Designed to meet the needs of practitioners of forensic psychiatry, for residents in forensic psychiatry, and those preparing for the specialty examination in Forensic Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, this volume will also answer the many questions faced by mental health professionals, mental health administrators, correctional health professionals and correctional health administrators, attorneys, judges, probation and parole officers and administrators all of whom, at one time or another, require a substantive presentation of the entire field of forensic psychiatry in the USA.
* A comprehensive account of all aspects of forensic psychiatry - directed specifically to the needs of trainees in and practitioners of this speciality area
* Up-to-date and expanded new edition of this award-winning reference
* Contains a synopsis of the major landmark cases in mental health law in the United States - many new for this edition
* Edited and written on behalf of the Tri-State Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law by leading US forensic psychiatrists
CONTENTS
1. History and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry
2. Legal regulation of psychiatric practice
3. Forensic evaluation and treatment in the criminal justice system
4. Civil law
5. Family law and domestic relations
6. Correctional psychiatry
7. Special clinical issues in forensic psychiatry
8. Basic issues in law
9. Landmark cases in forensic psychiatry
