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Ethical Controversies in Forensic Psychiatry

open access: yesMedicine Science, 2015
Conflicts between the various ethical principles not only practical, but also conceptual, are commonplace in forensic psychiatry as many professional responsibilities and activities of forensic psychiatry are unique to the field, where duties to patients
Abhishek Karn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long-term forensic mental health services: an exploratory comparison of 18 European countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The objective of this study was to explore current provisions within forensic mental health inpatient services for people who require longer-term care within Europe. We used a structured questionnaire and follow-up semi-structured interviews with experts
Bulten, Erik   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Granting Leave to Patients in Bavarian Forensic-Psychiatric Hospitals: A Survey to Describe the Current Process and Develop Guidelines

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Forensic-psychiatric patients reoffending or absconding during the leave granted to them (hereafter referred to as “granted leave”) have gained increased attention by researchers and the general public.
Halina Sklenarova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forensic psychiatry determination of mental capacity [PDF]

open access: yesSrpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2011
Forensic psychiatry determination is, ordered by a court, the analysis and interpretation of medical facts with important legal implications. In that sense, psychiatrists (or neuropsychiatrists), apart from their professional expertise, must be ...
Jovanović Aleksandar A.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Free will, neuroscience, and choice: towards a decisional capacity model for insanity defense evaluations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Il libero arbitrio è stato spesso considerato una tematica centrale nella dottrina della responsabilità criminale. Ciononostante, il concetto stesso di libero arbitrio presenta intrinseche problematiche nella sua definizione teorica e applicazione ...
Biondi, Massimo   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Formação em psiquiatria forense: aspectos comparativos para uma reflexão sobre o modelo Português.

open access: yesActa Médica Portuguesa, 2011
Forensic psychiatry has experienced a significant development in the last few decades. Several mechanisms underlie this shift, including deinstitutionalization of mental health patients and extraordinary progress in neurosciences, imaging technologies ...
Bruno Trancas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The charm of structural neuroimaging in insanity evaluations. guidelines to avoid misinterpretation of the findings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Despite the popularity of structural neuroimaging techniques in twenty-first-century research, its results have had limited translational impact in real-world settings, where inferences need to be made at the individual level.
Ferracuti, S.   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Impact of Legal Traditions on Forensic Mental Health Treatment Worldwide

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundForensic psychiatry is a subspecialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mentally ill offenders. However, forensic treatment standards vary.
Pavlos Beis, Marc Graf, Henning Hachtel
doaj   +1 more source

Violent Behavior During Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment in a German Prison Hospital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Violent behavior in correctional facilities is common and differs substantially in type, target, implication, and trigger. Research on frequency and characteristics of violent behavior in correctional facilities and psychiatric hospitals is limited ...
Dezsö, Dora   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act 1983 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Background Black and minority ethnic (BME) patients are disproportionately detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. There has been no systematic exploration of differences within and between ethnic groups, nor of the explanations put forward for this ...
Churchill, Rachel   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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