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2011 THEME: THE PSYCHIATRIST
IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COURTS
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
29th Annual Symposium
MARCH 24-27, 2011
San Diego, California
The Westgate Hotel -- Special Group Rate $215
Choose one of the following interesting and educational topics
or one of your own:
Forensic Practice Issues: Ethical dilemmas; Malpractice and risk management; How standards of care are developed and how they impact practice; How/when to "fire" a patient without abandoning the person; Managing clerical functions to maximal efficiency; Professional frustrations at work, not addressed by management
Civil Forensic Issues: Personal injury; Disability; Workers' compensation; Fitness for duty; ADA reasonable accommodation requests; Diagnostic problems with posttraumatic stress disorder; Pain disorders; Sexual harassment; Wrongful termination
Criminal Forensic Issues: Criminal profiling; Factors to predict violence in high-risk psychiatric patients; Burden of proof strategies/protocols for NGRI cases; Homicides and suicides among mentally ill patients; Child sexual abuse; Murder of patients by nurses; Sexually violent predator assessment; Assessment of competency in juveniles
Malingering: Assessment and detection
Effective report writing
Advanced interviewing techniques
Psychological tests: Comparison of various instruments and protocols; Tests of personality functioning; Cross-cultural issues; Use and misuse of tests in court
Legal implications of psychopharmacology
How to handle requests from lawyers to serve as an expert witness
Traumatic brain injury or other acquired brain injury and dementia in forensic issues
Competency in borderline intelligence individuals
Dealing with personality-disordered individuals and how this might affect the legal situation
How to know whether you are working with a good competent lawyer who will help you be an effective witness
Current information on mental health laws and cases relevant to a forensic practice
Correctional psychiatry
Case presentations and discussions
Unusual psychiatric disorders
Also to be included in the 2011 Symposium:
Interactive forensic skills workshops: civil and criminal
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Deadline for Submission: September 21,
2010
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: SEPTEMBER 21,
2010
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In general, individual presentations will be alloted 40 minutes,including 10 minutes
for discussion.
Panels/workshops will be allowed more time.
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Relevant References
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of ACFP. Proceeds from the sale of journals and recordings offset costs
of publishing and recordings and organizing the annual meetings.
IMPORTANT: A $100.00 honorarium
is given to symposium speakers whose presentations have been accepted
and is to be deducted from the 4-day meeting registration fee
(approximately $500). Speakers must register for the entire meeting
(not just for the day of their presentation) and remit payment
of the meeting fees by January 21, 2011. Once presentations have
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American College of Forensic Psychiatry
PO Box 130458, Carlsbad, California 92013
Telephone:
(760) 929-9777
Fax: (760) 929-9803
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The
American College of Forensic Psychiatry is accredited
by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
to provide Continuing Medical Education for physicians.
Goal:
The goal of this symposium is to keep forensic psychiatrists abreast of important issues which lie within the interface of psychiatry and law, recent developments in psychiatry that require new knowledge for expert witnesses, and new case law affecting forensic practice.
Target audience: The program is intended to benefit practicing forensic psychiatrists, psychiatrists in other subspecialties, and attorneys who litigate civil and criminal cases involving psychiatric evaluations and expert testimony.
Objectives: Participants should improve their knowledge and skills in the following areas: (a) evaluation or treatment of forensic litigants and individuals with other forensic psychiatric issues; (b) new and ongoing research and developments in the field of forensic psychiatry; (c) relevant concepts useful in testifying and educating the court on mental health issues, and in working within the legal system; (d) changes in the law that affect clinical and forensic practice; (e) legal and psychiatric aspects involving the mentally disordered inmate in correctional facilities.
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