Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice

Abstract

Forensic psychiatry and psychology involve specialized practice with unique patients, including children, the incarcerated, and involuntary clients, presenting practitioners with specific ethics challenges. In this volume, Ezra E. H. Griffith offers a selection of engaging essays that guide practicing forensic specialists through particular situations that often result in ethics dilemmas.In chapters covering topics such as forensic practice and critical feminist theory, neuroethics in court, work with asylum applicants, and ethics problems presented by the internet, the contributors demonstrate methods to help practitioners resolve problems that they are likely to encounter in forensic practice. The concentrated focus on thinking through ethics quandaries encourages forensic practitioners to reflect regularly on the ethics dimensions of their work and provides them with the tools to create ethics-based solutions that are transparent and understandable and best serve their clients. This essential book provides a roadmap for specialists in these evolving fields to recognize dilemmas through reflection and consideration, thoughtfully articulate the problems, and create solutions. Part I. Approaches to solving ethics problems in forensic practice. Resolving ethics dilemmas in forensic practice / William Connor Darby and Robert Weinstock -- Feminism and forensic ethics / Navneet Sidhu and Philip Candilis -- Ethics challenges for forensic practice in a context of limited resources / Maisha Emmanuel and Michael Campbell -- On wearing two hats : ethics challenges and role conflicts in forensic practice / Rebecca Weintraub Brendel -- Objectivity and boundaries of competence as ethical issues in forensic assessments / Jennifer Cox and Stanley L. Brodsky -- Part II. Ethics in major areas of forensic practice. Minors' autonomy in forensic child and adolescent practice / Peter Ash -- Ethics dilemmas in correctional institutions / Graham D. Glancy and Alexander Simpson -- Forensic ethics and involuntary outpatient commitment / Ezra E.H. Griffith and Daniel Papapietro -- Neuroscience in forensic contexts : ethical concerns / Stephen J. Morse -- Part III. Specific ethics problems in forensic practice. Ethical issues in the use of psychological testing in forensic assessment / Lori L. Hauser