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Child forensic psychiatry
Child Adolesc Psychiatric Clin N Am 11 (2002) xi
Foreword
Forensic psychiatry
Melvin Lewis, MBBS, FRCPsych, DCH Consulting Editor
Child forensic psychiatry is a relatively recently approved subspecialty. It came to fruition when the specific legal rights of children came into focus and when the psychological impact of a child’s psychological needs in relation to those rights required the special expertise of child psychiatrists and related mental health specialists. Numerous child forensic psychiatry issues continue to emerge: the protection of children who are at risk for physical and sexual abuse and who are subject to neglect, child custody and placement issues, the psychological and legal aspects of a special education and the medical needs of children, juvenile justice mental health needs and services, the rights and needs of children who have been kidnapped posttraumatic stress disorders in children, and more. A need to codify ethical guidelines for practice also has arisen, and, last but not least, there is a need for an accredited comprehensive training program in this growing subspecialty. In this issue of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Lee H. Haller, Guest Editor, has gathered an outstanding group of authors who are experts in various aspects of this growing subspecialty. I am grateful to Lee Haller and each of the authors whom he has gathered for this much-needed issue. Melvin Lewis, MBBS, FRCPsych, DCH Yale Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine 230 South Frontage Road New Haven, CT 06510-8009, USA
1056-4993/02/$ – see front matter D 2002, Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved. PII: S 1 0 5 6 - 4 9 9 3 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 7 1 - 8
Foreword
Forensic psychiatry
Melvin Lewis, MBBS, FRCPsych, DCH Consulting Editor
Child forensic psychiatry is a relatively recently approved subspecialty. It came to fruition when the specific legal rights of children came into focus and when the psychological impact of a child’s psychological needs in relation to those rights required the special expertise of child psychiatrists and related mental health specialists. Numerous child forensic psychiatry issues continue to emerge: the protection of children who are at risk for physical and sexual abuse and who are subject to neglect, child custody and placement issues, the psychological and legal aspects of a special education and the medical needs of children, juvenile justice mental health needs and services, the rights and needs of children who have been kidnapped posttraumatic stress disorders in children, and more. A need to codify ethical guidelines for practice also has arisen, and, last but not least, there is a need for an accredited comprehensive training program in this growing subspecialty. In this issue of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Lee H. Haller, Guest Editor, has gathered an outstanding group of authors who are experts in various aspects of this growing subspecialty. I am grateful to Lee Haller and each of the authors whom he has gathered for this much-needed issue. Melvin Lewis, MBBS, FRCPsych, DCH Yale Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine 230 South Frontage Road New Haven, CT 06510-8009, USA
1056-4993/02/$ – see front matter D 2002, Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved. PII: S 1 0 5 6 - 4 9 9 3 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 7 1 - 8