Late abstracts

If you have not submitted an abstract but wish to present at the conference, please submit an abstract following these instructions. The conference committee will consider late submissions and allocate slots where available and appropriate

Abstracts are invited with possible themes including, but not limited to, the following:

• Factitious disorders in forensic settings
• Malingering and deception: identification and evaluation
• Malingering and deception in family law and in civil and criminal matters;
• Malingering and deception across the age spectrum - in children, adolescents
  and the elderly
• Malingered symptoms: psychosis, cognitive disorders, neuropsychological disorder, pain, post-traumatic stress disorder
• Substance abuse and malingering
• Risk assessment
• Risk evaluation in preventive detention for sex offenders
• Ethics in forensic evaluations
• Error in medico-legal assessments and consequences of error
• Being a detective: the boundaries of forensic evaluation
• Phenomenology in forensic evaluation
• Epistemology in forensic psychiatry

Possible formats are as follows:

• Papers (30 minutes including 10 minutes for questions/discussion)
• Brief presentations (10 minutes)
• Symposia (90 minutes including 3 or 4 related papers)
• Clinical teach-in sessions (90-minute sessions with a clinical case focus)
• Workshops (90-minute or half-day sessions)

The MS Word template IS to be used in the submission of your abstract, download the template from the Word icon below:

The conference brochure and call for abstracts can be downloaded from the PDF link below:

(1.2Mb) (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Please forward abstracts, using the template,
by email to:       
or on a CD to:    Forensic Conference
                        c/- The Conference Organiser
                        146 Leicester Street
                        Carlton Victoria 3053
                        AUSTRALIA

Confirmation of receipt of abstracts will be emailed within 48 hours; if you do not receive this confirmation, please contact us.

Please Note:
Presentation of accepted abstracts is contingent on registration for the conference; persons whose abstracts are accepted will be required to register
at least 2 months prior to the conference in order for their presentation to appear on the final program.