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What is Forensic Psychiatry?
Forensic psychiatry is a medical subspecialty that includes research and clinical practice in the many areas in which psychiatry is applied to legal issues. Forensic psychiatrists work in a variety of areas in which the mental health and the law overlap. Forensic psychiatric evaluation is provided through our forensic clinic.
Examples include evaluations and consultations around the following:
- Risk assessment
- Traumatic brain injury
- Criminal responsibility
- Mental state at the time of the offense
- Competence, civil and criminal
- Child custody
- Psychiatric issues relevant to mitigation at sentencing, including capital sentencing
- Involuntary treatment
- Correctional psychiatry
- Juvenile justice
- Ethics and human rights
- Psychiatric damages relevant to civil litigation
- Independent medical evaluation
- Medical malpractice
- Disability status determinations
Contact Us
Eileen P. Ryan, DOProfessor and Vice Chair of Clinical Services
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
1670 Upham Drive; Suite 130
614-685-5602
Eileen.Ryan@osumc.edu