Advanced Training in Maternal Mental Health Forensics and Courtroom Testimony

Maternal mental Health and Its Application to Forensics: Training the Expert Witness series overview

Series Overview: More psychiatric admissions are around the childbearing years than at any other time in the female life cycle. Women’s reproductive mental health is a highly specialized field of study with an increasingly critical role in the arena of criminal justice. This four-program series introduces participants to the foundations of maternal mental health as it applies to forensics and women who are criminally charged for harm to their child/children. Each program furthers the current empirically based understanding of maternal mental health forensics and promotes accepted standards and protocols in this emerging specialty. This series advances fundamental clinical, legal, and sociocultural perspectives in addition to encouraging critical dialogue in this evolving field. Basic diagnosis and assessment, the expert witness's role in evaluation and report writing, and advanced training in expert testimony are included. Case analysis and discussion are integral parts of the didactic learning inherent in this program.

Programs in this series include:

1. Basic Diagnosis and Assessment of Maternal Mental Illness in the Forensic Arena
2. Role of the Expert Witness in Establishing the Relationship Between Maternal Mental Illness & Criminally Charged Behaviour
3. Advanced Issues in Maternal Mental Health Forensics
4. Advanced Training in Maternal Mental Health Forensics and Courtroom Testimony




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Program Materials

The materials listed below are not included with the program purchase and must be purchased separately. Strongly Recommended Wong, G., & Parnham, G. J., (Eds.). Infanticide and filicide: Foundations in maternal mental health forensics . American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

Foundational Texts Recommended Resources Barnes, D. (Ed.). (2014). Women’s reproductive mental health across the lifespan Spinelli, M. (Ed.) (2003). Infanticide: Psychosocial and legal perspectives on mothers who kill. American Psychiatric Publishing.