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Author: Wen-Shing Tseng ,
Daryl Matthews ,
Todd S. Elwyn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9781138967069
ISBN 10: 1138967068
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 13 May 2016
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Tseng, Matthews, and Elwyn have blended decades of experience and knowledge of cultural and forensic psychiatry to produce a text that is intellectually intriguing and enormously practical. The book also fills a void that has been created by the explosion of forensic psychiatry as a sub-specialty. And for the first time, forensic psychiatrists and others can turn to a brilliantly assembled reference text to read about the impact of culture on the MMPI, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, judicial practices, forensic clinical assessments, and other principles and rituals that forensic professionals so commonly encounter. These scholars use lucid prose to emphasize that both psychiatry and the law are subject to the influence of mundane societal mores, an understanding of which is necessary for the thoughtful practice of forensic psychiatry. . -- Ezra E. H. Griffith, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and of African-American Studies at Yale University This brilliant text provides a comprehensive and in-depth view of the importance of cultural perspectives in contemporary forensic psychiatry. The authors, with their combined expertise in cultural psychiatry and the law, provide practitioners with a solid foundation of what they need to know in this exciting and challenging field, while at the same time introducing central philosophical questions at the interface of psychiatry, law, culture, and ethics. . -- James K. Boehnlein, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry Oregon Health and Science University Drs. Tseng, Mathews, and Elwyn have written a text which takes us into the increasingly important realm of cultural competencies in a forensic psychiatric context...It is the first comprehensive treatment of this important topic and provides forensic scientists, novice and expert, with a roadmap for basic understanding of the issues involved and a jumping-off place for future investigation and mastery of this most important area of forensic concern. -- Joseph D. Bloom, M.D., Emeritus Dean, School of Medicine; Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University
Tseng, Matthews, and Elwyn have blended decades of experience and knowledge of cultural and forensic psychiatry to produce a text that is intellectually intriguing and enormously practical. The book also fills a void that has been created by the explosion of forensic psychiatry as a sub-specialty. And for the first time, forensic psychiatrists and others can turn to a brilliantly assembled reference text to read about the impact of culture on the MMPI, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, judicial practices, forensic clinical assessments, and other principles and rituals that forensic professionals so commonly encounter. These scholars use lucid prose to emphasize that both psychiatry and the law are subject to the influence of mundane societal mores, an understanding of which is necessary for the thoughtful practice of forensic psychiatry. . -- Ezra E. H. Griffith, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and of African-American Studies at Yale University This brilliant text provides a comprehensive and in-depth view of the importance of cultural perspectives in contemporary forensic psychiatry. The authors, with their combined expertise in cultural psychiatry and the law, provide practitioners with a solid foundation of what they need to know in this exciting and challenging field, while at the same time introducing central philosophical questions at the interface of psychiatry, law, culture, and ethics. . -- James K. Boehnlein, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry Oregon Health and Science University Drs. Tseng, Mathews, and Elwyn have written a text which takes us into the increasingly important realm of cultural competencies in a forensic psychiatric context...It is the first comprehensive treatment of this important topic and provides forensic scientists, novice and expert, with a roadmap for basic understanding of the issues involved and a jumping-off place for future investigation and mastery of this most important area of forensic concern. -- Joseph D. Bloom, M.D., Emeritus Dean, School of Medicine; Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University
Author Information
Wen-Shing Tseng, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture and the author of the Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry. Daryl Matthews, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Program at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, and Co-Director of Training in Forensic Psychiatry at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. Todd S. Elwyn, Clinical instructor in psychiatry and fellow in forensic psychiatry at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, USA
