Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 2Ed

2. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-340-80664-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 928 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 275 mm, Gewicht: 2481 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosner, Richard

Monden, Yasuhiro

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Forensik, Rechtsmedizin, Gerichtsmedizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

History and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry

Legal regulation of psychiatric practice

Forensic evaluation and treatment in the criminal justice system

Civil law

Family law and domestic relations

Correctional psychiatry

Special clinical issues in forensic psychiatry

Basic issues in law

Landmark cases in forensic psychiatry

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Rosner, MD is Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine; Director, Forensic Psychiatry Residency, New York University Medicine Center; and Medical Director, Forensic Psychiatry Clinic, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, USA.