Evaluating psychiatric disability: differences by forensic expertise

摘要: The task of evaluating psychiatric disability poses several ethics-related and practical challenges for psychiatrists, especially when they are responding to a request from third party evaluation on their own patient. This study sought evaluate the differences in how forensic nonforensic psychiatrists approach view evaluations Social Security benefits. Thirty-two 75 were surveyed practice patterns perceptions role, objectivity, dual agency process. Significant found between psychiatrists' dual-agency conflict, beliefs about who should perform evaluations, weight given different opinions decisions whether award benefits made. A minority respondents both groups reported having identified patient as disabled, despite believing otherwise. implications these findings discussed.