RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Practice Resource for Reproductive Psychiatry/Women’s Mental Health in Forensic Psychiatry Practice
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP S1
OP S31
DO 10.29158/JAAPL.240103-24
VO 52
IS 4 Supplement
A1 Friedman, Susan Hatters
A1 Sorrentino, Renée
A1 Kaempf, Aimee
A1 Price, Marilyn
A1 Landess, Jacqueline
A1 Glezer, Anna
A1 Penn, Joseph
A1 Westmoreland, Patricia
A1 Lewis, Catherine
A1 Cerny, Cathleen
A1 Janofsky, Jeffrey
YR 2024
UL http://jaapl.org/content/52/4_Supplement/S1.abstract
AB This practice resource seeks to describe salient problems within reproductive psychiatry (also known as women’s mental health) for the practice of forensic psychiatry. Understanding is critical and can help combat gender bias in such evaluations. Forensic psychiatric evaluations in the criminal realm, including evaluations related to neonaticide, infanticide, filicide, child abuse, and kidnapping by cesarean, require an understanding of reproductive psychiatry. Civil forensic evaluations requiring knowledge about reproductive psychiatry include parenting evaluations and risk assessments in the postpartum. Similarly, forensic psychiatrists performing a treatment role within corrections or forensic hospitals recognize the importance of understanding mental illness in pregnancy and postpartum, lactation, mother-baby units, and forced separation or custody loss. In addition to menstruation, pregnancy, and postpartum, specific concerns that bear consideration within reproductive forensic psychiatry include the periods of girlhood and menstruation. Finally, eating disorders and substance misuse bear additional attention in this group.