Stone walls do not a prison psychiatrist make.

'Stone walls do not a prison make'.

Practical ethical problems of the forensic psychiatrist in dealing with attorneys.

Alan A. Stone, MD has delineated clearly the areas of ethical conflict for the forensic psychiatrist. He focuses primarily on issues of criminal law and psychiatry and the forensic psychiatrist as double agent. However, he also alludes to the four issues concerning ethical boundaries of forensic psychiatry. His first concern is whether psychiatry has anything true to say that the courts should ...

Role conflicts of the prison psychiatrist.

Practicing psychiatry in a prison is a complex experience characterized by doubts and frustrations as well as challenges and rewards, Lack of conviction abollt sllch work is reflected by the pre,ence of relatively few psychiatrists in this field despite enormous demand for them, Such aversion has several possible explanations, I propose that an important rea,on is the great potential for role a...

Paving the way for a better future.

I am incredibly blessed to be used in ministry to God and neighbor behind the walls of Washington Correction Center (WCC) in Shelton, WA. I never would have chosen to be a prison minister and yet I know I am exactly where God wants me. And I ONLY want to be where God wants me. For years I was involved in churches that performed prison ministry in one way or another. I never attempted to go insi...

Assessment and treatment of correctional inmates with ADHD.

Mr. A is a 32-year-old inmate in a medium-security prison who is being treated by the facility psychiatrist for recently diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). His school records are not available, but Mr. A’s parents report that they always struggled to get him to do his homework and that he had academic difficulties from the third or fourth grade. They recall his teachers ...