Bearing Witness to Change

Ezra Griffith, PhD , professor emeritus of psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; former deputy chairman, Diversity and Organizational Ethics, Department of Psychiatry; editor, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Michael Norko, MD , associate professor of psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine; director of forensic services, CT Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services; deputy editor, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.Alec Buchanan , associate professor of psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; former editor, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. Madelon Baranoski, PhD , professor of psychiatry, Law and Psychiatry Division of Yale University School of Medicine; vice chair, Yale University Human Investigation Committee; director, New Haven Jail Diversion Program. Howard Zonana, MD , professor of psychiatry, Yale University, School of Medicine; clinical professor [Adjunct] of Law, Yale Law School; training director, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Yale.

• Section 1: Major External Influences on Change in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology 1. The Law’s Influence on Change in the Evidentiary Rules and in the Realm of Sentencing Mitigation 2. Contribution of Peer (Consumer) Providers to Change in Forensic Practice 3. Global Developments and Forensic Practice 4. Brain in the Balance: Neuroimaging in the Courtroom 5. Politics and Money as Change- Agents in Forensic Systems Section 2: Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology as Their Own Change- Agents 6. Recent Developments in Forensic Psychiatry Ethics 7. Narrative and Performance in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice 8. The Evolution of Forensic Training Section 3: Changes in the Traditional Evaluative and Consultative Roles of the Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychologist 9. Consultation to Civil and Criminal Courts 10. Veterans’ Courts and the VA’s Veterans Justice Outreach Initiative 11. Legislative Consultation and the Forensic Specialist 12. Forensic Practice and Religion: Context and Change 13. Management of Forensic Hospitals Section 4: Forensic Practice in the Treatment and Care of Patients 14. Forensic Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic Therapy with Offenders 15. Positive Behavioral Supports for Managing Violence Risk in the Inpatient Forensic Setting 16. Violence Risk and Forensic Practice: The Case of Preventive Detention 17. The Mental Health System—Criminal Justice Interface Expanding Strategies for Therapeutic Jurisprudence 18. Community Forensic Services as an Integrated Treatment Model 19. Change in Management of Persons with Problem Sexual Behaviors 20. Correctional and Institutional Psychiatric Treatment: History and Litigation 21. Conclusion: Summarizing Change in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice