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 |