The required readings for this unit are:

Unit.B.4.2. Forensic Psychiatric Assessment/Treatment

Australia	Required Reading(s)

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Canada	Required Reading(s)

Crisanti, A. S., Arboleda-Florez, J., & Stuart, H. (2000). The Canadian Criminal Code provisions for mentally disordered offenders: A survey of experiences, attitudes, and knowledge. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 45(9), 816-820. Retrieved December 19, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=3937294&db=aph Objective: To systematically survey Alberta psychiatrists and lawyers regarding their knowledge of, attitudes toward, and experiences with the Criminal Code provisions regarding mentally disordered offenders to better understand the lack of impact in practice patterns. Zapf, P. A. (2001). Assessing fitness to stand trial: The utility of the Fitness Interview Test (Revised Edition). Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 46(5), 426-451. Retrieved December 20, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4753937&db=aph Objective: In Canada most evaluations of fitness to stand trial are conducted on an inpatient basis. This costs time and money, and deprives those defendants remanded for evaluation of liberty. This research assessed the predictive efficiency of the Fitness Interview Test, revised edition (FIT) as a screening instrument for fitness to stand trial.

 

International	Required Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Required Reading(s)

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United States	Required Reading(s)

Nieberding, R. J. & Moore I. I, Tatum, J & Dematatis, A. P. (2002). Psychological Assessment of Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients. International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 46(3), 350-363. Retrieved December 19, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6807004&db=aph The 1960s decrease in long-term residential mental health care resulted informer psychiatric patients being admitted to correctional and forensic psychiatric facilities. Although psychologists face challenges in managing and treating this displaced population, assessment data plays a pivotal role in the determination of appropriate aftercare for the mentally ill parolee. This article discusses the assessment protocol utilized by the Forensic Conditional Release Program (CONREP) in California, summarizes data from these patients, and uses case excerpts to illustrate the potential value of assessment with a forensic psychiatric (outpatient) population. Special emphasis is given to the use of the MMPI-2 and Rorschach

 

Databases
For the full text article online, sleuth the 'University of Calgary/ Library/ Article Indexes':

Directions:

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  • forensic and psychiatry and assessment
  • forensic and psychiatry and treatment
  • fitness and assessment
  • insanity and assessment
  • criminal and responsibility
    

 

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The 'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:

Unit.B.4.2. Forensic Psychiatric Assessment/Treatment

 

Australia	Recommended Reading(s)

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Canada	Recommended Reading(s)

Menzies, R. (2002). Historical profiles of criminal insanity. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 25(4), 379-404. This study spans nearly eight decades in the history of British Columbia's mental health system. The 77 years from 1874 to 1950 witnessed many milestones and transformationsin the province's legal, medical, and institutional response to psychiatric disability, along with a virtually uninterrupted profusion of hospital inpatients.

 

International	Recommended Reading(s)

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United Kingdom	Recommended Reading(s)

Ward, T. (200?). A terrible responsibility: Murder and the insanity defence in England, 1908-1939. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 25(4), 361-377 This article will trace the debate about legal insanity from the first cases to reach the new court to the outbreak of World War II. For reasons of space, it will not look in any detail at the important controversies within the medical community; nor will it discuss the special position of infanticidal women, which I have discussed in detail elsewhere (Ward and Ward). It will show how a strict interpretation of the M'Naghten Rules became firmly embedded in binding legal precedents, and how these rules became increasingly divorced from the reality of dealing with mentally abnormal killers.

 

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Additional references for this unit can be found in 'forensic references' of the forensic sourcebooks.

• Sleuth 'forensic reference' database for:
  • forensic - psychiatry - history
  • insanity
  • mentally - ill - offender

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic References.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/sourcebooks/experts/Experts_database.html/refs

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Video's recommended for this unit are:

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The required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:

Unit.B.4.2. Forensic Psychiatric Assessment/Treatment

Australia	Resources (Web)

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Canada	Resources (Web)

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International	Resources (Web)

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United Kingdom	Resources (Web)

Woods, P. (1996). How nurses make assessments of patient dangerousness. Mental Health Nursing, 16, 20-22. Research report from Phil Woods - Patient Dangerousness: The views of nurses on low dependency wards http://www.fnrh.freeserve.co.uk/

• Note the summary of this published paper on-line.

United States	Resources (Web)

American Psychiatric Association (2002). Insanity defense. American Psychiatric Association. Public Information Website: http://www.psych.org/public_info/insanity.cfm Note the meaning of "not guilty by reason of insanity?" in the United States. Court TV. (2000). Unabomber Evaluation: U.S. v. Kaczynski. Psychological Evaluation of Theodore Kaczynski. Courtroom Television Network.Retrieved June 14, 2002 from the Court TV Website: http://courttv.com/trials/unabomber/documents/psychological.html Note the psychological evaluation of Theodore Kaczynski, the Unibomber in 1998.

 

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For additional websites on this unit, sleuth 'forensic websites' in the forensic sourcebooks.

• forensic - psychiatry - history
• insanity
• mentally - ill - offender

Kent-Wilkinson, A. (2002). Forensic Sourcebooks: Forensic Websites.

Retrieved May 28, 2002, from the Forensic Education Website: http://www.forensiceducation.com/sourcebooks/experts/Experts_database.html/websites

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