This document is intended to be a review of legal and psychiatric factors and to give practical
guidance and assistance in the performance of psychiatric disability evaluations. It was …

Dahmer is obviously “crazy" or “sick" and, second, Dahmer de-serves to be punished to the
full extent of the law, While all of these conclusions seem logical, they are, in fact, difficult to …

A fitness for duty (FED) evaluation is initiated by an employer to assess an employee's
capacity to perform his or her job duties in a safe and competent manner in the context of a …

Psychiatrists function, in part, as historians who rely on patient narratives to help them
understand presenting mental disorders and explain their causes. Forensic psychiatrists have …

Disability evaluations in workers’ compensation cases have unique issues for treating and
forensic clinicians to address. Clinicians need to assess not only psychiatric impairment but …

Discusses the historical evolution of current methods of dealing with juvenile delinquency and
concepts of children's criminal responsibility (R). Maturational differences in children must …

Unlike a pure psychiatric disability evaluation, mental and emotional damage claims require
an assessment of causation. Today, treating psychiatrists are increasingly asked to provide …

Among Social Security disability claims, those for mental disorders have increased 168%
between 2000 and 2013, representing nearly 30% of all Social Security disability beneficiaries. …

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