Didactic Lectures
Attend Forensic Review Course at AAPL (American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law)
Attend Annual AAPL Conference
Weekly Case Conference Series with Forensic Faculty (12:00PM – 1:00 PM)
Case Discussion and Journal Club
Weekly Grand Rounds with General Psychiatric Residency Program (1:00 PM – 2:00 PM)
Weekly Forensic Didactics (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM)
This includes a review of the relevant case law
Introductory Topics
- Introduction to Forensic Psychiatry
- Overview of the Legal System
- History of Forensic Psychiatry
- US Constitution, Due Process Equal Protection
- Record Review and Report Writing
- Roles of the Forensic Psychologist
Criminal Evaluations and Criminal Law
- Review of Sharpe Hospital System (West Virginia’s Forensic Hospital)
- Competency to Stand Trial
Violence/Dangerousness Risk Assessment - Mental State at Time of Offense (MSO) - Criminal Responsibility (Insanity Defense), Diminished Capacity, Automatism
Treatment and Disposition of Forensic Patients (including release of insanity acquittees) - Sex Offender Risk Assessment (SORA)
- Death Penalty and Competence to be Executed
- Competence to Waive Rights
- Defendant's Rights
Civil Law
- Emotional Harm and Worker's Compensation
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Sexual Harassment
- Psychiatric Malpractice
- Conservator, Guardian
- Testamentary Capacity
Legal Regulation in Psychiatry and Rights
- Civil Commitment
- Patient's Rights – Right to Treatment and Right to Refuse Treatment
- Right to Die
- HIPAA
- Ethics
- Duty to Protect
- Informed Consent
Family Law and the Juvenile System
- Child Custody Evaluations
- Parental Fitness Evaluations
- Juvenile Delinquency and Child Rights
- Child Abuse Reporting
- Investigative Interviewing of Children and Child Witnesses
Other
- Expert Witness Testimony Standards
- Eye Witness Testimony
- Deposition and Testimony
- Jury Selection
Special Topics in Forensic Psychiatry
- Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy
- Pedophilia, Paraphilias and Sex Offender Treatment
Neuropsychological Testing - Malingering and Tests of Feigning
- Chronic Pain
- Brain Injury
- Rape Trauma Syndrome
- Premenstrual Syndrome
- Somatoform Disorders
- Hypnosis
- Psychiatric Autopsy
- Administration of Forensic Psychiatry Practice
- Managed Care
Correctional Psychiatry
- Evaluation and Treatment of Incarcerated Individuals
- Prisoners’ Rights
Note: As we are an ever-growing program all didactics and rotations are subject to change.