Division of Forensic Psychiatry

What is Forensic Psychiatry?

Forensic psychiatry is a medical subspecialty that includes research and clinical practice in the many areas in which psychiatry is applied to legal issues.   Forensic psychiatrists work in a variety of areas in which the mental health and the law overlap. Forensic psychiatric evaluation is provided through our forensic clinic.

Examples include evaluations and consultations around the following:

• Risk assessment
• Traumatic brain injury
• Criminal responsibility
• Mental state at the time of the offense
• Competence, civil and criminal
• Child custody
• Psychiatric issues relevant to mitigation at sentencing, including capital sentencing
• Involuntary treatment
• Correctional psychiatry
• Juvenile justice
• Ethics and human rights
• Psychiatric damages relevant to civil litigation
• Independent medical evaluation
• Medical malpractice
• Disability status determinations

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