RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Lederman, Lynne
T1 Forensic Psychiatrists
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2015
FD SAGE Publications
VO 15
IS 11
SP 24
OP 26
DO 10.1177/1559897715593533
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/15/11/24.abstract
AB 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.