Didactic Lectures
Attend Forensic Review Course at AAPL (American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law)
Attend Annual AAPL Conference (American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law)
Weekly Case Conference Series with Forensic Faculty (Friday: 12:00PM – 1:00 PM)
Case Discussion and Journal Club
Weekly Grand Rounds with General Psychiatric Residency Program (Wednesday: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM)
Weekly Forensic Didactics (Wednesday: 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.