Dr Kimberlie Dean (PhD) was recently appointed the inaugural chair of Forensic Mental Health at the University of NSW. Her research includes a PhD into the mental health and criminal outcomes for children of parents with mental health disorders.
I got into forensic psychiatry because ... it is a unique clinical and academic discipline practised at the interface between medicine and the law. Fascinating clinical and intellectual challenges are exposed and practitioners are brought into contact with a wide range of other non-medical disciplines. Also work in this area is essentially concerned with those individuals with mental disorder who are also in contact with the criminal justice system, a doubly disadvantaged and marginalised group who present with a wide range of...
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