Criminal evaluations

• Competency to stand trial

• Mental state at the time of the offense

• Capacity to waive Miranda rights

• Mitigation

• Pre-sentencing and waiver evaluations for adolescents

• Violence risk assessment

• School threat assessment

Independent medical examinations in civil proceedings

• Damages from injuries including impact of trauma throughout the lifespan

• Damages from malpractice

• Parental and child evaluations for family court

• Forced Heir evaluations

Second opinion diagnostic assessments

Provision of treatment recommendations in complex cases

Case formulation and strategy for attorneys and courts

Trial preparation

Evaluation of psychiatry/psychology expert work

Preparation of rebuttal reports

Evaluation of insurance claims, denials, appeals

Evaluation of adherence to regulatory standards

Standard of care determinations

Review of child forensic interviews and abuse allegations

Authoring of white papers for in-depth review of the scientific literature on specific topics

Clinical supervision for general, forensic, and child psychiatrists

Lectures on requested topics for clinical teams, agencies, attorneys, or continuing education conferences

Jury education

Lectures from the library of more than 100 lectures I have previously given in academic settings

My areas of expertise and interests include:

• Hospital-based acute psychiatric care for children and adolescents

• Co-occurring medical and mental illness in children

• Standard of care and regulation of psychiatric/behavioral health clinical practice

• Trauma/child abuse and impact of traumatic experience across the life span

• Severe mental illness

• Violence risk assessment

• School threat assessment

• Adolescent development and culpability

• Re-sentencing evaluations for juvenile lifers

• Civil commitment/involuntary treatment

• Boundary violations in psychiatric/psychological clinical practice

• Clinical education of physicians

• Psychiatric evaluation and care of children in state custody

• Court-ordered evaluations and evaluations used in legal proceedings

• Psychodynamic psychiatry

• De-prescribing psychotropic medications

• Factitious disorder

• Somatic symptom and functional somatic disorders

• Medical child abuse (aka Munchausen by Proxy, aka caregiver fabricated illness)

• Legislative advocacy by psychiatrists

• Managed care of behavioral health benefits

• Child witness

• Forensic interviewing of children

• Detection of malingering

• Suicide risk assessment