AAPL Expert Series: Criminal Culpability in Adolescents and Young Adults
This workshop is designed to educate the practicing forensic psychiatrist on recent research findings that have direct relevance to their practice.
AAPL Expert Series: Criminal Culpability in Adolescents and Young Adults
This workshop is designed to educate the practicing forensic psychiatrist on recent research findings that have direct relevance to their practice.
Involuntary Treatment in the Continuum of Forensic Settings
Involuntary treatment statutes and case law exist to provide necessary and substantive treatment to patients who need it but whose illness impairs their capacity to...
Autism and Aggression: Assessing the Spectrum of Violence
ith this disorder, structured assessments of ASD, and its relevance in forensic settings. This workshop will review the literature on ASD in justice-involved...
Claims of Disability Due to PTSD
In the year after the murder of George Floyd, the number of Minnesota police officers and firefighters applying for disability retirement tripled. Seventy nine...
Telling the Whole Truth: Neurological Evidence in the Courtroom
Neurological evidence (neurological diagnoses, neuroimaging, neuropsychological testing, and/or neurological exam findings) is increasingly used in forensic...
The Bad Seed: Criminal Responsibility and Competency in Children
In early 2023 in Newport News, VA, a six-year-old child brought his mother’s firearm to his elementary school. He threatened multiple children and left his teacher...
Addressing EDI in Forensic Curricula
In the wake of our country’s long overdue national awakening, medical organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, have voiced their opposition to...
Remembering Dr. Alan Stone and his Impact on Forensic Psychiatry
At AAPL’s 1982 annual meeting, Dr. Stone gave his presidential keynote entitled, “The Ethics of Forensic Psychiatry: A View from the Ivory Tower.” This speech...
Racial Inequities in the Justice System
It is established in the literature that Black and Latinx individuals are overrepresented in the American criminal justice system at every stage of the process,...
NOLA True Crime Presentation
During the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many neighborhoods in New Orleans faced catastrophic effects of the flood. During the long rebuilding process...
New Influences on Ethics: Dignity, Feminism, Professional Identity
This workshop will ask whether new developments in forensic ethics offer the prospect of helping forensic psychiatry address inequities among vulnerable groups treated...
Searching for the Whole Truth: Considering Culture and Gender in Contemporary Forensic Psychiatric Practice
Modern forensic psychiatrists practice in a system which has gender and cultural biases. Though we are only one small piece of the criminal justice system, learning...
AAPL Forensic Self-Assessment Exam 2024
The goal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's Forensic Psychiatry Self-Assessment Examination is to provide information and feedback on individual...
Challenges and Solutions in Forensic Professional Development
The practice of forensic psychiatry is riddled with challenges and dilemmas many early career forensic psychiatrists often face. While fellowship training equips...
LGBTQIA Issues in the Criminal Justice & Corrections Systems
Not unlike cisgender heterosexual persons, LGBTQIA individuals interact with every level of the justice system. For LGBTQIA individuals however, their sexual or gender...