RANZCP The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Section of Forensic Psychiatry: Justice at Risk International Conference, Prato, Italy

RANZCP Section of Forensic Psychiatry - An International Conference

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Tuesday 12 October 2010 (Optional Workshops) (Description)

9.30-5.30	Workshop 1: Factitious Disorder and Munchausen by Proxy (fabricated or induced
	illness in children): A clinical review
	Marc Feldman

9.30-5.30	Workshop 2: Malingering
9.30-1.00	Assessing malingering for the courts: Forensic report writing and issues as an expert
	Elizabeth Benson-Stott and Jack White
2.00-3.30	Forensic assessment of discrete memory loss: Blackout or malingering?
	Charles Scott and Humberto Temporini
4.00-5.30	A police officer’s crime and conspiracy to stage a murder scene: Mental illness or
	malingering?
	Chuck Denison

5.30-7.00	Welcome Reception

Wednesday 13 October 2010

8.30-10.45	Opening Plenary Session

8.30	Welcome

8.45	Keynote Address
	Factitious Disorder and Munchausen Syndrome: The legal and ethical boiling pot
	Marc Feldman

9.45	Keynote Address
	Liar Liar
	Paul Mullen
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10.45-11.15	Morning tea

11.15-12.45

Parallel Sessions 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D

Session 1A	Session 1B	Session 1C	Session 1D
Symposium	Papers	Brief Presentations	Workshop
Exploring characteristics of malingerers using the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms Jessica Ferranti (Convenor) Papers: Malingering and Criminal Activity: the correlation between the nature of the crime and malingering detection using the SIRS Keelin A. Garvey, Barbara E. McDermott The Correlation of age at first arrest with malingering as determined by the SIRS Andrew G. Nanton, Barbara E. McDermott Women, malingering and the SIRS: Gender differences in the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms primary scale distribution Jessica Ferranti, Barbara E. McDermott	Risk assessment and preventative detention: a judge’s perspective Justice Catherine E Holmes	A survey of forensic psychiatry teaching in Australian and New Zealand medical schools Jonathon Adams, Daniel Riordan and Adam Martin Tales from the “Hot Tub”: Practical advice about being involved in the joint expert conference and giving joint evidence Lisa Brown Association of Serotonin 1A Receptor Gene Polymorphism with Completed Suicide in Iranian Population BahramSamadirad, FatemehBaybordi, MortezaSeifi, AsgharGhasemi and RasulKhodaei American legal system response to Munchausen-Syndrome-By-Proxy Michael Harlow Discussion	Improving mental health for prisoners: Ethics, equivalence and human rights Mary Whittle and Andrew Forrester
	Mental health risk assessment advice to Australian Courts since: Queensland’s Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act 2003 Rob Moyle
	Fit for punishment: The new mental health assessments for the criminal courts Bill Glaser

12.45-1.45	Lunch

1.45-3.15	Plenary Session

1.45	Keynote Address
	What is to be done about personality disorder? Lessons from the UK's DSPD experiment
	Tony Maden

2.45	Keynote Address
	Incompetence to divorce: When breaking up is odd to do
	Douglas Mossman

3.15-3.45	Afternoon tea

3.45-5.15

Parallel Sessions 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D

Session 2A	Session 2B	Session 2C	Session 2D
Papers	Papers	Papers	Clinical Teach-In
The partial order of the HCR-20 violence risk assessment scheme Michael Davis	Borderline Personality Disorder in the court room. The jury is out Antonella Ventura and Anthony Samuels	Amnesia for criminal offences: A study of life sentence prisoners Natalie Pyszora, Michael Kopelman and Tom Fahy	The psychopathic mother: Identification, risk assessment, and . . . treatment? Vivian Chern Shnaidman and Karen Rosenbaum
The effectiveness of structured assessments in the detection of malingering Barbara E. McDermott, Katherine Warburton and Chad Woofter	The Automated Violent Recidivism Scale (AVRS) Alexander Skelton, Marc Wilson, Jim Vess, DarshaniKumareswaran	On being unsafe in secure places: The inevitability of boundary breaches in forensic institutions Toby Mackinnon and Cleo Van Velsen
Raising the red flag: An examination of elevation rates of the PAI validity indices in an Australian Worker’s Compensation sample Jacqui Yoxall and Thomas O’Neill	“There are only two stimulants to one’s best efforts: fear of punishment and the hope of reward.”- ADHD and malingering Danielle Florida	“To live well is to work well”: Thomas Aquinas and forensic psychiatric ethics Andrew Howie and Susan Hatters Friedman

5.15	AGM (RANZCP Section of Forensic Psychiatry)

Thursday 14 October 2010

8.45-10.15	Plenary Session

8.45	Keynote Address
	Accuracy of assessments of Fitness to Stand Trial
	Douglas Mossman

9.45	Keynote Address
	Allegations of sexual abuse in the Family Court of Australia: Implications of re W
	Robert Adler

10.15-10.45	Morning tea

10.45-12.15

Parallel Sessions 3A, 3B, 3C 3D and 3E

Session 3A	Session 3B	Session 3C	Session 3D	Session 3E
Symposium	Clinical Teach-In	Papers	Papers	Clinical Teach-In
“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity” (Robert Frost). Or time for some old-fashioned paternalistic compassion? Observations from the world of threat assessment and the harassment of politicians David James, Frank Farnham, Michele Pathé, Paul Mullen Papers: The stalking and harassment of politicians: what are the risks and to whom? Harassment of politicians. How widespread is the problem? ‘Through the revolving door and up a blind alley.’ Is there any lasting benefit to intervention? A paternalistic approach to psychiatric intervention? Perspectives from the world of public figure threat assessment	5Ws of Risk (Who, What, Why, Where and When): A Structured Clinical Evaluation Approach to the Assessment and Management of Risk in Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities Joseph Allan Sakdalan	Allegations of child sexual abuse in Family Court cases: A qualitative study of psychiatric evidence Fiona Black, Robert Schweitzer, and Frank Varghese	The honourable wound Michael Duke	The implementation of a malingering screen for incompetent to stand trial patients committed for restoration Barbara E. McDermott, Katherine Warburton, and Chad Woofter
		The role of forensic opinion and evaluation of victim impact statements in child sexual assault cases Rita Shackel	The compensation process: Psychiatric diagnosis and legal definitions: Assisting or impeding recovery and rehabilitation? Encouraging exaggeration or malingering? Yvonne Skinner
		Four cases of suspected factitious sexual assault Lesley Woodard-Knight	Grief: normal, abnormal or complicated by compensation ? Assessing the distinctions in nervous shock cases Lisa Brown

12.15-1.15	Lunch

1.15-3.00	Plenary Session

1.15	Keynote Address
	Believing in delusions, believing in their potential for driving violence: Is belief all that there is?
	Pamela Taylor

2.15	Keynote Address
	Factitious Disorder management: The role of the psychiatrist
	Marc Feldman

3.00-3.30	Afternoon tea

3.30-5.00

Parallel Sessions 4A, 4B, 4C 4D and 4E

Session 4A	Session 4B	Session 4C	Session 4D	Session 4E
Symposium	Symposium	Papers	Papers	Clinical Teach-In
Child murder by parents: Epidemiology, assessment, treatment and recovery Susan Hatters Friedman (Convenor) Papers: Child murder by parents: Epidemiology James Cavney, Susan Hatters Friedman, Brian McKenna and Alexander Simpson Child murder by parents: Assessment of perpetrators and legal outcomes Susan Hatters Friedman, James Cavney, Brian McKenna and Alexander Simpson Child murder by parents: Treatment and recovery after the homicides Alexander Simpson, Susan Hatters Friedman, James Cavney, and Brian McKenna Child murder by mothers: Psychiatrist risk assessment and prevention Renee M Sorrentino, Susan Hatters Friedman, Joy Stankowski, Carol Holden and Phillip Resnick	Risk management system for mental health and forensic mental health Stephen Allnutt James Ogloff	A multimodal approach to assessment of malingered posttraumatic stress disorder: The initial validation study of a new Australian instrument Jacqueline Yoxall and Mark Bahr	Deception? – Let’s be civil Brian Parsonage	Assessment of malingering in the correctional setting Gregory Sokolov and Barbara McDermott
		The F.A.I.R. assessment methodology: Evaluating uncooperative malingering defendants found incompetent to stand trial Charles Scott	The role of psychodynamics in forensic assessment Norman Rose
		Why don't we use item response times (latencies) on computerised personality tests? Oto Cadsky	NSW Community Forensic Mental Health Service; the way forward Leila Kavanagh and Stephen Allnutt

7.00	Conference Dinner (buses depart 6.15pm)

Friday 15 October 2010 (optional workshops) (Description)

9.00-5.00	Workshop 3: Understanding what risk assessments do
	Douglas Mossman

9.00-5.00	Workshop 4: Beyond the mundane: Preparing court reports and providing expert evidence in novel and complex cases
	James RP Ogloff & Paul E Mullen