Relevance of Forensic Psychiatry in the Various Types of Fatality Review
Type of Fatality Review Team | Potential Role for Forensic Psychiatry |
---|---|
Child Fatality Review | Sharing knowledge regarding: |
mental illness in parents and youth, and response to treatment | |
motives for filicide | |
substance use disorders and personality disorders among parents and youth | |
risk factors for suicide and homicide/neonaticide/filicide | |
predictability/foreseeability of suicide and homicide | |
Conceptualizing intentionality versus unintentional or accidental death | |
Developing multi-agency relationships | |
Assisting in developing recommendations that are feasible and logical in our populations | |
Domestic Violence Fatality Review | Sharing knowledge regarding: |
mental illness and substance use disorders in both perpetrators and victims, and response to treatment | |
mental illness and substance use and the correlation with domestic violence | |
medical screening for domestic violence | |
different forms of domestic violence, as well as different types of stalking | |
risk factors for intimate partner homicide, suicide, and stalking | |
Developing multi-agency relationships | |
Assisting in developing recommendations that are feasible and logical in our populations | |
Elder Abuse Fatality Review | Sharing knowledge regarding: |
geriatric psychiatry related to victims, and mental illness/substance abuse/personality disorders among offenders | |
dementias, diagnosis, and treatment | |
risk factors for physical abuse, physical neglect, and financial exploitation | |
the guardianship process and criteria as well as testamentary capacity | |
predictability/foreseeability of outcomes | |
Developing multi-agency relationships | |
Assisting in developing recommendations that are feasible and logical in our populations | |
Overdose Fatality Review | Sharing knowledge regarding: |
substance use disorders and mental illness, and their appropriate treatments | |
appropriate prescribing behaviors | |
physician ethics | |
criminality and criminogenic risk related to drug use | |
suicide among substance abusing populations | |
Conceptualizing intentionality versus unintentional or accidental death | |
Developing multi-agency relationships | |
Assisting in developing recommendations that are feasible and logical in our populations | |
Maternal Mortality Review | Sharing knowledge regarding: |
maternal mental health, such as postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis | |
screening for postpartum depression | |
maternal suicide | |
treatment of maternal mental health disorders |