Practical Forensic Psychiatry

Summary:
Highly succinct, structured and focused, this book concentrates on the key facts and practical day to day issues vital to forensic psychiatry whether for quick clinical reference or for fact-oriented exam preparation.

* clear bullet point style helps you to find key facts at a glance
* clinical cases, tips and practical advice helps those starting out on placements or giving evidence in legal situations
* fact-oriented, it gives you an invaluable revision guide for higher examinations in psychiatry
* reflecting current practice, modern law and clinically relevant examples it will give you an up to date précis of current practice

An essential purchase for trainees in psychiatry, practising consultant psychiatrists and other mental health professionals working in forensic psychiatry including mental health nurses, social workers, psychologists or occupational therapists.

• concise, easy to access information at a glance, clear bullet point style
• practical, full of clinical cases and practical advice particularly for those starting out on placements or giving evidence at court
• ready revision guide on this challenging topic for the MRCPsych and higher examinations in psychiatry
• reflecting current practice and modern law with up to date and clinically relevant examples
• competitively priced

Table of Contents:
1. The development of forensic psychiatric services
2. Entry into secure care
3. Treatment and outcomes in secure care
4. Challenging issues in secure care
5. Leaving secure care and community follow-up
6. Risk of violence assessment
7. Psychosis and offending
8. Mood disorders, neuroses and offending
9. Personality disorders and offending
10. Learning disability, autism spectrum disorders and offending
11. Women in secure care
12. Children and adolescents in secure care
13. Sex offenders, stalkers and fire-setters
14. Crime and criminology
15. The criminal law and sentencing
16. Psychiatry and the police
17. Psychiatry and the criminal justice system
18. Prisons and prisoners
19. Mental health care in prisons
20. Psychiatric issues in criminal courts
21. Providing expert evidence to criminal courts

About the Author(s):

Dr Dharjinder Rooprai, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist (Forensic LD, ASD and ABI), Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, West of England Forensic Mental Health Service, Bristol, UK

Dr Tom Clark, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Reaside Clinic, Birmingham; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, West Midlands School of Psychiatry; Visiting Forensic Psychiatrist, HMP Birmingham, UK

Readership:
• Psychiatric trainees preparing for the MRCPsych exam – 1400 pa UK