Forensic Ethics

Question 1

Slippage

Answer 1

The examinee’s forensic mindset erodes into a tx mindset - sees self as pt who can confide in examiner.

Question 2

Stone (1990) re: role of forensic psychiatrist

Answer 2

Role is inherently unethical bc tx is not the main standard and harm may be done.

Question 3

Appelbaum (1990) re: role of forensic psychiatrist

Answer 3

The ethical dilemma posed by Stone is best resolved by acknowledgement that the forensic examiner is not working w-in a dr-pt relationship.

Question 4

Park Dietz (1995) re: role of forensic psychiatry

Answer 4

Forensic psychiatrist is “forensic scientist” rather than advocate, zealot, etc. for particular outcome or view.

Question 5

Ezra Griffith (1998) re: role of forensic psychiatry

Answer 5

Debate about ethics of forensic psychiatry must occur in a culturally relevant context that addresses racial minorities and other nondominant populations.

Question 6

Weinstock (2015) re: role of forensic psychistry

Answer 6

Describes balancing conflicting principles, duties, and values in a dialectic to help determine the most ethical action to take as an aspirational process.

Question 7

Glancy, Chatterjee, Miller (2021) re: role of forensic psychiatry

Answer 7

Detached concern as a way to achieve the balance of concern for evaluee and concern for justice.

Question 8

Per Appelbaum, which ethical principles most apply to forensic psychiatry?

Answer 8

“Primum non nocere” does not apply. Truth telling and non-maleficence are more applicable.

Question 9

Principlism

Answer 9

Ethical theory based on the major moral principles.
Dialectical principlism (Weinstock 2015) requires the balancing of competing principles to arrive at an ethically sound decision.

Question 10

Ethical theory that deals with duty, moral obligation, and doing the right thing.

Answer 10

Deontological

Question 11

Utilitarianism

Answer 11

Ethical theory whose goal is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number.

Question 12

Liberal individualism

Answer 12

Ethical theory in which rights/autonomy of individual is paramount.

Question 13

Ethical principle that de-emphasizes rules and consequences and instead looks at whether the person acting was showing good character and moral virtues in their actions.

Answer 13

Virtue theory

Question 14

Ethical theory in which the moral worth of an action is based on goodness or badness of outcomes/consequences.

Answer 14

Consequentialism