Professional Fitness and Licensing Board Evaluations: Understanding Current Impairment and Safe Practice
Professional fitness depends on current functioning, not diagnosis alone
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Does Hearing Voices Make You Legally Insane?
Psychosis and legal insanity are related, but not interchangeable
Diagnosis vs. functional impairment in psychiatric disability evaluations
In mental-health claims, the question is function, not symptoms
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Criminal Forensics
Does Hearing Voices Make You Legally Insane?
Psychosis and legal insanity are related, but not interchangeable
False confessions
A Fontana settlement sheds light on a serious forensic problem
Mental health diversion in California under PC § 1001.36
A new law encourages non-traditional criminal rehabilitation
Employment & Disability
Fitness-for-duty evaluations vs. threat assessments: understanding the difference
Safety and occupational functioning are related, but not the same
Diagnosis vs. functional impairment in psychiatric disability evaluations
In mental-health claims, the question is function, not symptoms
Civil & Medical-Legal Evaluations
Temporal causation in psychiatric injury: why timing matters
Timing informs causation, but context determines it
The Meta verdict and what it actually means for psychiatric causation in social media cases
A jury verdict is not the same thing as individualized psychiatric causation
Real-time evaluations of testamentary capacity
The role of a forensic psychiatrist
Neuro-psychological methods in the legal system
Careful use, cognizant of caveats, complements a patient's self-report
Forensic Practice & Emerging Issues
Professional Fitness and Licensing Board Evaluations: Understanding Current Impairment and Safe Practice
Professional fitness depends on current functioning, not diagnosis alone
Artificial intelligence and expert judgment
Methodology, transparency, and professional judgment in forensic uses of artificial intelligence
Misconceptions about forensic psychiatry
Setting the record straight on some common mix-ups
Technology in the forensic psychiatric evaluation
New inventions are poised to drastically change physicians' methods for the better
Strengthening the forensic diagnosis
Forensic psychiatrists combine traditional diagnostic methods with an extra-rigorous investigative style
Hearsay and Sanchez
A rules exception permits experts to use hearsay—for now, at least
Mental health diagnoses and DSM-5 in the legal system
The ubiquitous guide leaves many psycho-legal questions unanswered
How do forensic psychiatrists come to a conclusion?
A traditional psychiatric exam is often insufficient
Is the evidence even admissible? Daubert and Frye
Different legal tests decide whether expert science gets through the courtroom door