Forensic Mental Health Expert

1. Forensic Mental Health Expert By: Carell Brown

2. What is Forensic Mental Health • A field of workers who work with the legal system as it relates to laws regarding mental health issues

3. Who? • Forensic Physiatrist • Social workers • Nurses • Psychometrician • Occupational therapist • Behavioral therapist • Recreational therapists

4. What? • Human behavior- (sex offenders, parole, personality disorders) • Competency- diminished capacity of the individual at the time of the crime • Examine the accused and see if they can stand trial • Determine the level of criminal responsibility due to mental illness • Work in an institution for the mentally ill trying to help them overcome their illness and avoid recidivism • Profile subjects • Profiling • Expert testimony • They read people their rights who are mentally ill and explain the laws to them • They help appoint people who can speak for the mentally ill when they are too sick to do it themselves

5. When? • Custody Cases • Divorce • Negligence • Malpractice • Workplace Violence • Homicide

6. Case Study • Theodore Robert Bundy • Between 1974 and 1978 he raped and killed young women in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida. He confessed to 28 murders, but estimates make him responsible for hundreds of deaths. • Dr. James Dobson was the doctor on the case. • Questioning • Interviewing • General dealing with • Childhood evaluations

7. Education • Mental Health • Further training in Forensic mental health • Some receive training through organizations (for example the FBI) • Psychiatry • 5 years of psychiatric training • Medical school • Specialty examination

8. Dr. Mark DiamondEducation • B.S. degree in Chemistry • Finished osteopathic medical school with a D.O. degree • AMA residency in Psychiatry • completed a Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship (typically 4 years of residency and one year in Fellowship). • certified Correctional Health Professional • Some training in Toxicology • Worked for EPA (prior to medical school) in Washington, D.C. and in the Dallas regional office • some training in Pathology (Forensic Pathology)

9. Dr. Mark DiamondDaily Routine • Hours vary because over half of his work now is private practice. • Working nights and on weekends are not uncommon but free time during the week does exist • He works mainly in forensic psychiatry evaluations (a lot of criminal cases including some death penalty or capital cases), seeing patients in youth corrections, adult correctional settings (jails, prisons), public defenders, district attorneys, and judges, sees patients through mental health centers and state hospitals, lectures nationally at times and also teaches at the medical school in Denver and reviews the evaluations of the forensic psychiatry fellows. • No other job, all the money comes from forensic mental health work

10. http://www.learninghaven.com/articles/forensic-science-types.htmlhttp://www.learninghaven.com/articles/forensic-science-types.html • http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-forensic-mental-health.htm • http://www.hgexperts.com/article.asp?id=4794 • http://www.forensicpsychiatry.ca/intro.htm