{"title":"State Hospital Rotations Allow Residents to Regain the Longitudinal Experiences of Yesteryear.","authors":"Ashley H VanDercar","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240091-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.240091-24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":"52 4","pages":"402-406"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical and Legal Considerations When Optimizing Trauma Narratives in Immigration Law Evaluations.","authors":"Amy Franks, Diab A Ali, Ahmad Adi","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240080-24","DOIUrl":"10.29158/JAAPL.240080-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Asylum seekers in the United States face complex legal processes that require the construction of coherent and credible narratives to establish eligibility for legal status or immigration relief. In this article, we review clinical and legal considerations involved in optimizing trauma narratives in forensic psychiatric evaluations for immigration courts. We highlight significant challenges faced by asylum seekers, including the emotional impact of trauma and cultural factors affecting their ability to disclose their experiences, including the roles of symptoms and cultural and situational elements in disclosure and narrative development. We emphasize the importance of creating a therapeutic and empathetic environment to facilitate disclosure and partnering with interpreters across multiple culturally sensitive evaluations. We address the roles of common traumatic stressors in narrative development, including cultural challenges related to histories of torture, abduction, sexual violence, and human trafficking prevalent among asylum seekers, providing insights and guidance on each. Further, we address specific potential challenges to the forensic psychiatric evaluator during the narrative development process, such as transference, countertransference, malingering, and vicarious traumatization. We aim to provide guidance on the development of trauma narratives of asylees developed for both therapeutic and medico-legal effectiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":" ","pages":"449-459"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142406944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postpartum Psychosis, Two Sides of the Story.","authors":"Meghan Cliffel, Susan Hatters Friedman","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240068-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.240068-24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":"52 4","pages":"486-493"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Kristopher Kaliebe","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240101-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.240101-24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":"52 4","pages":"532"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laeticia Eid, Amina Ali, Leisha Senko, Graham Glancy
{"title":"A Review of the Interpretation of the Canadian Test for Fitness to Stand Trial.","authors":"Laeticia Eid, Amina Ali, Leisha Senko, Graham Glancy","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240081-24","DOIUrl":"10.29158/JAAPL.240081-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1991, Canada introduced Bill C-30 to amend the Criminal Code (mental disorder). Bill C-30 codified accumulated law specifying the criteria for fitness to stand trial. This test was clarified in a landmark case, <i>R v. Taylor</i>, which appeared to accept the limited cognitive capacity test. This explanation has guided the assessment of fitness to stand trial in courts across Canada for three decades. It was recently tested in an Ontario Court of Appeal case, <i>R v. Bharwani</i>, which ruled that the common interpretation of <i>Taylor</i> was insufficient. The court ruled there is one test for fitness, which is contextual and nuanced, and this test is spelled out in the Criminal Code. This will likely change the test and manner for assessing fitness to stand trial in Canada from how it has evolved over the last three decades.</p>","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":" ","pages":"470-476"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susan Hatters Friedman, Renée Sorrentino, Aimee Kaempf, Marilyn Price, Jacqueline Landess, Anna Glezer, Joseph Penn, Patricia Westmoreland, Catherine Lewis, Cathleen Cerny, Jeffrey Janofsky
{"title":"The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Practice Resource for Reproductive Psychiatry and Women's Mental Health in Forensic Psychiatry Practice.","authors":"Susan Hatters Friedman, Renée Sorrentino, Aimee Kaempf, Marilyn Price, Jacqueline Landess, Anna Glezer, Joseph Penn, Patricia Westmoreland, Catherine Lewis, Cathleen Cerny, Jeffrey Janofsky","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240100-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.240100-24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":"52 4","pages":"494-495"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dosing and Misuse of Buprenorphine in the New Jersey Department of Corrections.","authors":"Anthony Tamburello, Tracy L Martin","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240071-24","DOIUrl":"10.29158/JAAPL.240071-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Opioid use disorder is common in incarcerated persons, and concern about the diversion of buprenorphine is a barrier to treatment. We conducted a retrospective chart review of incarcerated persons in the New Jersey Department of Corrections who received charges for misuse of medication, including buprenorphine, hypothesizing that the prescription of buprenorphine monoproduct, multiple tabs or films of buprenorphine, or higher doses of buprenorphine would be associated with more diversion incidents. Within the dosing range of 2 to 12 mg, there were more incidents of diversion of buprenorphine monoproduct (24.3%) compared with buprenorphine-naloxone (10.7%, <i>p</i> = .004). More incidents of diversion were seen when multiple films or tabs of buprenorphine product were prescribed (21.7%, comparison 12.7%, <i>p</i> = .01). This observation held when considering multiple buprenorphine-naloxone films, but not multiple buprenorphine tablets. No statistically significant association was found for institutional diversion charges related to higher doses of buprenorphine products. These results suggest that, within the dosing range of buprenorphine used in the New Jersey Department of Corrections, misuse charges were not associated with higher doses although were associated with prescribing buprenorphine monoproduct and multiple films of buprenorphine-naloxone.</p>","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":" ","pages":"441-448"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexibility and Innovation in Decisional Capacity Assessment.","authors":"Jacob M Appel","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240087-24","DOIUrl":"10.29158/JAAPL.240087-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the 1980s, the four skills criteria have become the most widely accepted mechanism for the assessment of decisional capacity in the United States. These criteria emerged in response to the paternalistic approach to clinical decision-making that had been widely accepted in an earlier era and offered a means of ensuring that physicians honored the rights of capacitated patients to make their own medical decisions. Unfortunately, the criteria are now applied to situations for which they are not suited and in a manner that is often highly inflexible. In an article in this issue of The Journal, Matthew Dernbach and colleagues describe one potential scenario that requires a flexible approach to using the four skills model: situations in which a patient stands at high risk of losing decisional capacity in the near future. Using Dernbach <i>et al.</i> as a starting point, this article offers specific ways in which the four skills model can be improved upon or augmented without abandoning its key principles. These advances include adjusting to empirical evidence, re-emphasizing the importance of autonomy maximization and restorability, and embracing novel conceptual and technological innovations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":" ","pages":"425-428"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142406945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frank Tedeschi, Sarah McCue Horwitz, Michael Surko, Emily Weinberger, Amanda Bart, Carly Baetz, Fei Guo, Ava Alexander, Jennifer F Havens
{"title":"Mental Health Service Referral and Treatment Following Screening and Assessment in Juvenile Detention.","authors":"Frank Tedeschi, Sarah McCue Horwitz, Michael Surko, Emily Weinberger, Amanda Bart, Carly Baetz, Fei Guo, Ava Alexander, Jennifer F Havens","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240082-24","DOIUrl":"10.29158/JAAPL.240082-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Numerous recommendations have been made to address the high rates of mental health disorders among justice-involved youth. Few data are available on the use, quality, appropriateness, or availability of services to address these needs. This study examined the relationship between trauma-informed mental health screening, other referral pathways for diagnostic evaluation, subsequent DSM-5 diagnoses, and treatments for evaluated youth. Eligible participants were all youth admitted to New York City secure juvenile detention facilities from September 17, 2015 to October 30, 2016 who remained in the facility for at least five days (<i>N</i> = 786). Of those, 581 (73.9%) were voluntarily screened and 309 (53.2%) later received a diagnostic evaluation. Youth who screened positive for depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and problematic substance use were more likely to be evaluated. Treatment received was related to diagnosis rather than reason for referral. For youth who were referred for behavioral or emotional concerns, 99.1 percent (114 of 115) of those diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder had attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). These data are among the first to describe DSM-5 diagnoses and treatment among youth detainees. They highlight the prevalence of ADHD in detained youth and argue for the coordination of universal trauma-informed mental health screening and a structured referral system for this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":" ","pages":"460-469"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142406946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren K Robinson, Ariana E Nesbit, Julliette Dupré, Shane Burke
{"title":"","authors":"Lauren K Robinson, Ariana E Nesbit, Julliette Dupré, Shane Burke","doi":"10.29158/JAAPL.240102-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.240102-24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47554,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law","volume":"52 4","pages":"533"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142819575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}