Overview
- Teaches the basics of the intersection of psychiatry and law to students, trainees, and practitioners
- Uses clinical case vignettes to bring topics to life
- Features high-yield topics in psychiatry and law suitable for students
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book is designed to help new psychiatrists and other medical professionals confront the complicated legal and ethical issues that arise at the intersection of the mental health and judicial systems. The law provides the boundaries in which clinical care operates. Appreciating these boundaries is particularly important when working with individuals whose rights may already be curtailed (forensic settings, for example). Understanding how psychiatry and the law interface provides students and trainees with a foundation for building their skills and attitudes through training and beyond. This text can guide or supplement education on the legal regulation of psychiatry, the use of psychiatry to answer legal questions, and the treatment of individuals with criminal justice involvement.
In the second edition of this text, the editors have updated several chapters with new information and added chapters covering topics not addressed in the first edition. Each chapter begins witha clinical case vignette that brings the topic to life through a clinical encounter, the majority of which are based on landmark legal cases that set a historical precedent. The text presents details of the legal case, historical significance, and the precedent it set before discussing the core principles of the subject area. Each chapter reviews the existing literature and reinforces the most salient points. Topics include risk assessment, substance misuse and the law, legal issues within child and adolescent psychiatry, involuntary medication considerations, and other challenges that are often not sufficiently addressed in training.
Psychiatry and the Law: Basic Principles covers a wide range of topics that would be suitable for use as the basis of a course in forensic psychiatry for psychiatry residents and is an excellent resource for new psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, students, and other professionals navigating medical and legal boundaries in clinicalpractice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tobias Wasser, MD
Chair of Psychiatry, Frank H Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Fairfield Region of Hartford Healthcare
Westport, CT
Rocksheng Zhong, MD, MHS
Associate Professor and Director of Forensic Services, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychiatry and the Law
Book Subtitle: Basic Principles
Editors: Tobias Wasser, Rocksheng Zhong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52589-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52588-9Published: 30 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52589-6Published: 29 March 2024
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: X, 265
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Forensic Medicine, Behavioral Therapy, Public Health