This book covers the basic science and neurobiology of violence and integrates this with clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of forensic psychiatry.

An invaluable study guide for doctors preparing for the forensic psychiatry board exam or for those seeking recertification, this book is a concise and practical aid for mastering forensics, making key principles easy to understand and ...

Focusing on the needs of forensic psychiatrists this book shows how to apply clinical data to psychiatric-legal criteria.

All this information, and more, is provided in Mental Health Law: a practical guide. Multi-disciplinary in approach, this book provides all you need to kno

Bringing the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience to the clinician, this text provides resident and practicing psychiatrists with a comprehensive, clinically relevant overview of the brain mechanisms underlying behavior and mental illness.

This book is the first of its kind to combine concise, easy-to-understand summaries of 116 landmark mental health cases for practicing clinicians, attorneys, educators and students with over 130 board-style multiple-choice questions to help ...

Synthesizing an explosion of recent research, this book presents dramatic advances in understanding and treating autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in very young children.

Through the personal experiences of an adult diagnosed with Asperger's, this book will inform on the social challenges of life on the spectrum along with sensible advice for practical situations.

The book provides unified accounts of the complex psychiatric, psychological, neurological, medical, social, and educational issues that are relevant to clinical understanding.

This title mixes historical beginnings, current developments, representative subspecialties of psychiatry, and several allied disciplines and their impact on forensic psychiatry.