Summary
Forensic psychiatrists face ethical issues as they balance legal and therapeutic concerns. Accurate assessments of risk are important in many therapeutic situations, including counseling victims of stalking, determining whether juveniles will offend or reoffend, preventing inpatient suicide, and evaluating future dangerousness at sentencing hearings in death penalty cases.
- stalking
- risk assessment
- death penalty
- determination of competence
- juvenile offenders
- juvenile violence
- inpatient suicide prevention
- ethics
- dialectical principlism
- child & adolescent psychiatry
- psychiatry & psychology clinical trials
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- Article
- Summary
- Risk Assessment of Stalkers Still in Development
- Authentic and Malingered Hallucinations Can Be Differentiated
- Psychiatrists Continue to Play a Role in Death Penalty Issues
- Dialectical Principlism as a Method of Analyzing and Resolving Complex Ethical Dilemmas
- Improved Observation Practices Reduce Inpatient Suicide Risk
- Progress Is Being Made in Predicting Juvenile Violence
- Figures & Data
- Info & Metrics
- eLetters