When acting in a forensic role, clinicians-psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, and other medical or mental health practitioners-face the intersection of the legal and medical systems. A number of questions arise: Should they prioritize medical values or legal values when providing expert testimony? How do they serve justice, rather than advocating for one side or the other? How can they adequately address cultural and social factors that may influence individuals' actions, as well as structural biases that affect the system itself?

Forensic Neuropsychiatric Ethics provides a pragmatic approach to ethical dilemmas, outlining decision-making skills for problems not addressed by other guidelines. This volume covers

• The history of forensic psychiatric ethics, forensic ethics theories, and approaches to ethical dilemmas• Ethics considerations and applications for forensic work, including how to ethically write reports, testify, and make use of neuroimaging technologies, psychological test results, and violence risk assessments• Hot-button topics, such as physician-assisted death, abortion, Second Amendment rights, capital cases, the "duty to warn" third parties, and involuntary outpatient commitment

With practical guidance in each chapter bolstered by conclusions that reprise the most important information, Forensic Neuropsychiatric Ethics is a pivotal reference for mental health clinicians committed to promoting both justice and respect for individuals while engaging in forensic work.

Offering a pragmatic approach to ethical dilemmas, this book outlines decision-making skills for problems not addressed by other guidelines. The volume opens with a history of forensic psychiatric ethics, forensic ethics theories, and approaches to ethical dilemmas. Subsequent sections cover considerations and applications for forensic work such as report writing, testifying, applying neuroimaging data, and participating in capital cases.

ContributorsForewordChapter 1. The Modern History and Evolution of Forensic Psychiatric Ethics Leading Up to Dialectical PrinciplismChapter 2. Dialectical PrinciplismChapter 3. Narrative and Ethics in Forensic PsychiatryChapter 4. Robust Professionalism: Forensic Psychiatry's Identity and PurposeChapter 5. Ethical Report WritingChapter 6. Ethical Challenges While TestifyingChapter 7. Ethical Implications for the Use of Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, and Artificial Intelligence in the CourtroomChapter 8. Ethical Issues in the Forensic Psychiatric Use of Psychological and Neuropsychological TestingChapter 9. How to Interpret the Role of the Forensic Psychiatrist to Promote Ethical WorkChapter 10. Is Impartiality Attainable in Forensic Work? Managing Bias and Subjectivity in Psychiatric Expert TestimonyChapter 11. Death Penalty: Ethics Considerations for Participating in Capital CasesChapter 12. The Tarasoff Duty to Protect: Unintended Consequences and New Liability ConcernsChapter 13. Balancing Ethical Considerations for Assisted Outpatient TreatmentChapter 14. Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry: Mental Health Firearm ProhibitionsChapter 15. Ethical Challenges When Interacting With Professional Organizations, Governmental Agencies, and Community Mental Health ProgramsChapter 16. Ethical Challenges Regarding Informed Consent, Reporting Laws, and Confidentiality ViolationsChapter 17. Termination of Pregnancy, Ethics, and Decisional CapacityChapter 18. Clinical Requests for Hastened Death in Individuals With Mental Illness: An Examination of Advance Directives and Physician Assistance in DyingChapter 19. Structural and Implicit Bias in Violence Risk AssessmentsChapter 20. Structural Racism and EthicsChapter 21. Priority Setting in the COVID Pandemic: Perspectives From SwedenIndex

W. Connor Darby, M.D., is Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.

Robert Weinstock, M.D., is Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.