Forensic Psychiatric Evaluations
Civil Cases:
Child Custody Evaluations
Fitness to Return to Work
Hostile Work Environment/Sexual Harassment
Independent Medical Examination
Medical Malpractice
Parental Fitness
Workplace Bullying
Workers’ Compensation
Criminal Cases:
Dangerousness and Reoffense Risk
Female Sex Offender Evaluations
Fitness to Proceed (Competency to Stand Trial)
Insanity & Diminished Capacity Defense
Sex Offender Civil Commitment (knowledge of criminal cases is critical)
Expert interpretation of forensic psychology and Neuropsychology reports
Forensic psychiatry reports
What are Forensic Psychiatric Evaluations?
Forensic Psychiatry is the practice of psychiatry as applied to legal matters. It is therefore related to criminology, because we forensic psychiatrists practice at the interface of psychiatry and law. We utilise our knowledge of psychiatry to understand behavior, emotion, and motivation related to any and all legal matters.
Legal matters can include issues as simple as whether or not a psychiatric patient needs hospitalisation, to whether a medical patient has the capacity to consent to a procedure, all the way to criminal issues such as whether a criminal defendant was not guilty by reason of insanity when he committed a crime. In between those extremes lie hundreds of other legal scenarios, such as testamentary capacity, fitness or capacity for a variety of legal proceedings, custody matters, dangerousness, diminished capacity, and guardianship issues, to name but a few.
Forensic psychiatrists are specifically trained to understand the legal issues in each case we encounter, and then further trained to answer the psychiatric-legal questions applicable to the case. We know how to understand each person’s mental status, psychiatric history, diagnosis, and psychosocial history and interpret it relative to the legal issues being considered.
Specialties & Treatment Approaches
Specialties
Depression
Anxiety
ADHD
Mental Health
Dissociative Disorders
Elderly Persons Disorders
Impulse Control Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
Psychosis
Thinking Disorders
Sexuality
Bisexual
Gay
Lesbian
Types of Therapy
Coaching
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Culturally Sensitive
Dialectical (DBT)
Eclectic
Family / Marital
Forensic Psychology
Psychodynamic
Modality
Individuals
Couples
Family
Video/Skype
Video Counseling
Issues
Addiction
Adoption
Alcohol Abuse
Alzheimer's
Anger Management
Antisocial Personality
Asperger's Syndrome
Autism
Behavioral Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Borderline Personality
Career Counseling
Child or Adolescent
Chronic Illness
Chronic Impulsivity
Chronic Pain
Chronic Relapse
Codependency
Coping Skills
Developmental Disorders
Divorce
Domestic Abuse
Domestic Violence
Drug Abuse
Dual Diagnosis
Eating Disorders
Emotional Disturbance
Family Conflict
Forensic Psychiatry
Gambling
Grief
Hoarding
Infertility
Infidelity
Intellectual Disability
Internet Addiction
Intimacy, relationships
Learning Disabilities
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Marital and Premarital
Medication Management
Men's Issues
Narcissistic Personality
Obesity
Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
Oppositional Defiance
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
Relationship Issues
School Issues
Self Esteem
Self-Harming
Sexual Abuse
Sleep or Insomnia
Spirituality
Stress
Substance Abuse
Suicidal Ideation
Teen Violence
Trauma and PTSD
Traumatic Brain Injury
Weight Loss
Women's Issues
Battered Woman Syndrome