Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice

Ezra Griffith is Professor of Psychiatry and African-American Studies, Emeritus in the Yale School of Medicine, where he is also Deputy Chairman for Diversity and Organizational Ethics and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry. He is the editor of the Journal of the Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. His most recent book is Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice: Bearing Witness to Change (CRC Press, 2016).Ezra E. H. Griffith is professor emeritus of psychiatry and African American studies at Yale University. He is editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He is the recipient of the Seymour Pollack Award and the American Psychiatric Association’s 2010 Isaac Ray Award for his distinguished achievements in forensic psychiatry.

Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Baylor College of Medicine:
This new volume on ethics in forensic psychiatry and psychology is an impressively comprehensive compendium. Ezra E. H. Griffith has collected the leading experts in their respective fields to write an enormously valuable and user-friendly text. The major ethical dilemmas are clearly outlined, and the strategies to deal with them will be extraordinarily helpful to readers who are facing forensic challenges in their work. I highly recommend it to all forensic mental health practitioners and to those clinicians outside the forensic field who face ethical quandaries with their patients.

Larry R. Faulkner, MD, president and CEO, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology:
From a cogent review of established approaches to solving ethics problems to more specific strategies to address particular ethics challenges in a variety of settings and populations, Ezra E. H. Griffith and colleagues provide helpful suggestions and methods that can serve as a practical guide for any forensic specialist.

Maria A. Oquendo, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania:
Ethics challenges are not limited to forensic practitioners. General psychiatrists and psychologists grapple with them plenty. This excellent book seeks to provide guidance and principles that can be employed to approach an ethical dilemma, rather than prescriptions for thought and action. It is a must-read for the thoughtful clinician.

Eric Drogin, Harvard Medical School:
This book brings ethics “alive” for the burgeoning multidisciplinary community of forensic mental health practitioners. There will be no question in the minds of potential readers that this book represents significant progress in ethical scholarship.