Forensic Psychiatry
Section committee
Section mission
This Section's mission is to:
Promote high quality care for mentally disordered offenders through improved standards of assessment, the development of effective interventions and an increase in research activity in the field of forensic psychiatry.
Section objectives
- To raise awareness of forensic psychiatry amongst members of the EPA, other professionals and the general public
- To increase and disseminate knowledge in the field of forensic psychiatry
- To promote collaboration amongst member of the EPA, between forensic psychiatry and other subspecialties and between the Section and other organisations with similar interests
- To promote and support research relevant to the field of forensic psychiatry
- To enhance our understanding of mechanisms underlying offending and violent behaviour in individuals with mental disorders, including biological, psychological and social factors
- To increase our understanding of effective interventions to improve outcomes, including mental health and offending outcomes and quality of life in mentally disordered offenders
- To raise standards of assessment and treatment of mentally disordered offenders in psychiatric and criminal justice settings, e. g. through the development of guidelines and position statements
- To compare legal frameworks, policies, models of service delivery and training within Europe
- To support teaching initiatives on forensic psychiatry within Europe
- To raise awareness of ethical issues in the practice forensic psychiatry
- To represent the needs of forensic psychiatrists who are members of the EPA
Annual reports
Future Activities
workshop
Case-based Workshop: Presentation of offenders with intellectual disabilities: towards an open and inclusive treatment
08 April 2024 - 08 April 2024 / Budapest
Description :
08.04.2024 | 08:00 - 09:30 | F5
Code: CBS03
Type: Case-based workshops
Topic: Clinical / Therapeutic
Chair: Kris Goethals (Belgium) , Jane McCarthy (United Kingdom)
08:00 - 08:14
Introduction and overview of offenders with intellectual disabilities
Speaker: Kris Goethals (Belgium)
08:14 - 08:28
The psychiatric assessment including fitness to participate in Court proceedings for defendants with intellectual disabilities
Speaker: Jane McCarthy (United Kingdom)
08:28 - 08:42
Legal frameworks and the challenges for treatment and rehabilitation of offenders with intellectual disabilities
Speaker: Farzaneh Saeedzadeh Sardahaee (Norway)
08:42 - 08:56
A case scenario of a man with intellectual disabilities who committed sexual offences against children
Speaker: Jacopo Santambrogio (Italy)
08:56 - 09:10
The development of hospital and community services for offenders with intellectual disabilities
Speaker: Ken Courtenay (United Kingdom)
09:10 - 09:30
Q&A
symposium
Forensic psychiatric needs of individuals with an intellectual disabilities: towards open and inclusive treatment
08 April 2024 - 08 April 2024 / Budapest
Description :
08.04.2024 | 10:00 - 11:30 | F4
Code: SP19
Type: Symposium
Topic: Clinical / Therapeutic
Chair: Ellen Van Lier (Netherlands) , Jane McCarthy (United Kingdom)
10:00 - 10:17
Mental health needs of defendants with intellectual disabilities presenting at Court
Speaker: Jane McCarthy (United Kingdom)
10:17 - 10:34
The presentation and treatment of offenders with intellectual disabilities in a hospital setting
Speaker: Ken Courtenay (United Kingdom)
10:34 - 10:51
Integrating different models in the treatment of sex offenders with intellectual disabilities: RNR, GLM and SED-R²
Speaker: Wout De Ruyck (Belgium)
10:51 - 11:08
Care and treatment of prisoners with intellectual disabilities
Speaker: Vicenç Tort (Spain)
11:08 - 11:30
Q&A
workshop
Case-based Workshop: a complex clinical conundrum in a first offender
08 April 2024 - 08 April 2024 / Budapest
Description :
09.04.2024 | 10:00 - 11:30 | F8
Code: CBS06
Type: Case-based workshops
Topic: Clinical / Therapeutic
Chair: Michael Musalek (Austria) , Kris Goethals (Belgium)
10:00 - 10:14
The psychopathological development from a psychopathologist’s point of view
Speaker: Michael Musalek (Austria)
10:14 - 10:28
Legal and ethical perspective in this case
Speaker: Luis Madeira (Portugal)
10:28 - 10:42
A case of misdiagnosis and mismanagement in forensic psychiatry
Speaker: Farzaneh Saeedzadeh Sardahaee (Norway)
10:42 - 10:56
Geographical differences of the offender-patient pathways across Europe
Speaker: Vicenç Tort (Spain)
10:56 - 11:10
A perspective from a forensic psychiatrist and from the ECPT
Speaker: Birgit Völlm (Germany)
11:10 - 11:30
Q&A
business meeting
EPA Forensic Psychiatry Section Meeting
09 April 2024 - 09 April 2024 / Budapest
Description :
Forensic psychiatry section meeting 9 April 2024 at 12am
workshop
Ghent Group Summer seminar on forensic psychiatry and psychology in Europe - Annual summer seminar
05 August 2024 - 09 August 2024 / Seeon Monastery, Bavaria, Germany
Description :
(Seminar on Forensic Psychiatry in Europe for consultants and experienced trainees)
The Ghent Group Summer Seminar has been founded in 2010. Its aim is to improve internationally coordinated training of experienced trainees and consultants in forensic psychiatry in Europe. A main focus of it was ab initio to bring together colleagues from forensic psychiatry from across Europe to work together on a specific topic for one week in a nice and beneficial environment. It is intended that thereby interpersonal bonds are created while immersing in a specific topic and understanding the differences between the national forensic psychiatric as well as the judicial systems with regard to the specific topic of the seminar. It is intended to not only theoretically think about treatment related and political issues regarding the respective topic but to get in-depth scientific input through talks by experts, apply previous and freshly acquired knowledge in small workgroups as well as role-play, and discuss nationally specific as well as international implications with experienced colleagues.
conference
Ghent Group Meeting
19 September 2024 - 21 September 2024 / Antwerp, Belgium
Description :
www.ghentgroup.eu