Items Identified by Respondents as to What They Enjoy about the Field of Forensic Psychiatry
| Factor | Quotations from Survey |
|---|---|
| Intellectual challenge and stimulation | The intellectual challenge of figuring out complex cases |
| The interface of psychiatry and the law and translating knowledge back and forth Rigor, the intellectual challenge, medico-legal analysis Love the reports for court. Love legal analyses. Enjoy working with lawyers and providing testimony The complexity of the cases There are always new challenges and difficult cases to keep me engaged and interested | |
| Meaning and impact | Seeing patients recover and safely reintegrate; managing really challenging cases where others have failed |
| I feel good in knowing that I am trying my best to help my correctional population who have dealt with extremes in pain and suffering. Feels like the issues are really meaningful I believe I am contributing to Canadian society by working intensely with the criminal justice system and mentally abnormal offenders. Ability to treat patients successfully and reintegrating them in to community as valued member | |
| The work environment, including colleagues and teams | Rehab work and the possibility of treating patients in an interdisciplinary team |
| Enjoy working in a team-based environment Great colleagues | |
| Variety | The variety of areas of practice (inpatient, outpatient, corrections, variety of content in cases) |
| Variety of work (assessment, rehabilitation) | |
| Flexibility | Flexibility of work The patient population, flexibility, and breadth of experiences flexibility to choose what I do |