Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice

Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice

Edited by: Ezra Griffith

Columbia University Press | 2018

https://doi.org/10.7312/grif18330

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Forensic psychiatry and psychology involve specialized practice with unique patients, including children, the incarcerated, and involuntary clients, presenting practitioners with specific ethics challenges. Griffith provides a roadmap for specialists in these evolving fields to recognize dilemmas, articulate problems, and create solutions.

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Ezra Griffith is Professor of Psychiatry and African-American Studies, Emeritus in the Yale School of Medicine, where he is also Deputy Chairman for Diversity and Organizational Ethics and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry. He is the editor of the Journal of the Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. His most recent book is Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice: Bearing Witness to Change (CRC Press, 2016).Ezra E. H. Griffith is professor emeritus of psychiatry and African American studies at Yale University. He is editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He is the recipient of the Seymour Pollack Award and the American Psychiatric Association’s 2010 Isaac Ray Award for his distinguished achievements in forensic psychiatry.

Reviews

Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, MD, Harvard Medical School:
The challenge of feeling beholden to both legal process and moral justice, to both the law and its procedures, as well as patient well-being and the Hippocratic oath, creates dilemmas that must be wrestled with. This volume features contributions from those who have studied, experienced, and considered these ethical challenges in forensic psychiatry and psychology and offers wisdom, guidance, and the intellectual tools to work through each of these unique situations.

Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Baylor College of Medicine:
This new volume on ethics in forensic psychiatry and psychology is an impressively comprehensive compendium. Ezra E. H. Griffith has collected the leading experts in their respective fields to write an enormously valuable and user-friendly text. The major ethical dilemmas are clearly outlined, and the strategies to deal with them will be extraordinarily helpful to readers who are facing forensic challenges in their work. I highly recommend it to all forensic mental health practitioners and to those clinicians outside the forensic field who face ethical quandaries with their patients.

Larry R. Faulkner, MD, president and CEO, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology:
From a cogent review of established approaches to solving ethics problems to more specific strategies to address particular ethics challenges in a variety of settings and populations, Ezra E. H. Griffith and colleagues provide helpful suggestions and methods that can serve as a practical guide for any forensic specialist.

Maria A. Oquendo, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania:
Ethics challenges are not limited to forensic practitioners. General psychiatrists and psychologists grapple with them plenty. This excellent book seeks to provide guidance and principles that can be employed to approach an ethical dilemma, rather than prescriptions for thought and action. It is a must-read for the thoughtful clinician.

Eric Drogin, Harvard Medical School:
This book brings ethics “alive” for the burgeoning multidisciplinary community of forensic mental health practitioners. There will be no question in the minds of potential readers that this book represents significant progress in ethical scholarship.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
CONTENTS Free access PDF PDF	vii
Introduction Ezra E. H. Griffith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
PART I. APPROACHES TO SOLVING ETHICS PROBLEMS IN FORENSIC PRACTICE
1. Resolving Ethics Dilemmas in Forensic Practice William Connor Darby and Robert Weinstock Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	7
2. Feminism and Forensic Ethics Navneet Sidhu and Philip Candilis Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	23
3. Ethics Challenges for Forensic Practice in a Context of Limited Resources Maisha Emmanuel and Michael Campbell Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	40
4. On Wearing Two Hats: Ethics Challenges and Role Conflicts in Forensic Practice Rebecca Weintraub Brendel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	56
5. Objectivity and Boundaries of Competence as Ethical Issues in Forensic Assessments Jennifer Cox and Stanley L. Brodsky Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	67
PART II. ETHICS IN MAJOR AREAS OF FORENSIC PRACTICE
6. Minors’ Autonomy in Forensic Child and Adolescent Practice Peter Ash Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	87
7. Ethics Dilemmas in Correctional Institutions Graham D. Glancy and Alexander Simpson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	101
8. Forensic Ethics and Involuntary Outpatient Commitment Ezra E. H. Griffith and Daniel Papapietro Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	116
9. Neuroscience in Forensic Contexts: Ethical Concerns Stephen J. Morse Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	132
PART III. SPECIFIC ETHICS PROBLEMS IN FORENSIC PRACTICE
10. Ethical Issues in the Use of Psychological Testing in Forensic Assessment Lori L. Hauser Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	161
11. Ethics and the Mandated Video Recording of Forensic Evaluations Richard Martinez and B. Thomas Gray Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	176
12. Current Ethics Dilemmas in the Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders Dominique Bourget and John Bradford Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	190
13. The Internet and Forensic Ethics Patricia R. Recupero and Frederic G. Reamer Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	208
14. Ethical Dilemmas in the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Guantánamo Detainees Mass-Administered Mefloquine Remington L. Nevin and Elspeth Cameron Ritchie Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	223
15. Terrorism and National-Security Evaluations: Ethics Dilemmas in Forensic Practice Stephen N. Xenakis Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	237
16. Ethics and Forensic Specialists Interacting with the Media Brian K. Cooke Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	253
17. Ethical Dilemmas for Forensic Practitioners Working with Asylum Petitioners Chinmoy Gulrajani and Maya Prabhu Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	269
18. Addressing Ethics Dilemmas in Violence-Risk Assessment: A Forensic Psychologist Perspective Linda E. Weinberger and Shoba Sreenivasan Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	284
19. Forensic-Ethics Challenges in the Psychiatric Treatment of Children Thomas J. McMahon and Christy Olezeski Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	304
20. Forensic Ethics and Clinical Collaborations Across Medical Specialties Christy Olezeski and Thomas J. McMahon Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	324
List of Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	337
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	343

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