Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice
ISBN: 9780231544849
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Forensic Psychiatry -- ethics; Criminal Psychology -- ethics; Decision Making -- ethics; United States;

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.


Griffith Ezra :

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.

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