About the Faculty
The Faculty aims to:
- Improve psychiatric care for all mentally disordered
offenders
- Improve training and research in Forensic Psychiatry
- Provide a forensic resource for expert opinion to the
Government and other agencies in matters of civil and criminal law
where they interact with Psychiatry.
Chair:
Dr. Paul O'Connell
Honorary
Secretary: Dr. Conor O’Neill
The Executive Committee looks
after the day to day business of the Faculty and meets
approximately every 10 weeks.
Date of Next Meeting : 03 SEPTEMBER 2010 @
10AM
Venue : 5 HERBERT STREET, DUBLIN 2
Activities of the
Faculty
Activities of the Faculty of Forensic
Psychiatry include the following:
DVD Review - Dr.
Miriam Kennedy, Senior Registrar has written a review of the
DVD "Looking at the Assessment of Sex Offenders"
(November 2005)
ASBOs - Dr. Stephen
McWilliams, Registrar at the Central Mental Hospital has written
an article in
relation to ASBOs (July 2005)
Forensic Psychiatry in Ireland - Dr.
Damian Mohan, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Central Mental
Hospital has written an article on
Forensic Psychiatry in Ireland today (June 2005)
In March 2005 the Irish College of
Psychiatrists made a submission to the
National Prison Health Working
Group. This submission was prepared on behalf of the
Irish College of Psychiatrists by the Faculty of Adult Psychiatry
and Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry. Some input was also included
from the Faculty of Psychiatry of Learning Disability. Read
more here
Book Review - Dr.
Miriam Kennedy, Senior Registrar has written a review of the
book "Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment"
(October 2004)
Forensic Psychiatry and the Needs
of Children – The Faculty held a joint meeting with
the Faculty of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in April
2004. A very interesting discussion took place around the
needs of children. Read
more today
Mental Health Expert
Group – The Faculty submitted a document entitled
“Service Provision in Forensic Psychiatry: A Policy
Document for the Forensic Psychiatry Section of the Irish College
of Psychiatrists” to the Mental Health Expert
Group in December 2003. Thanks to Dr. Harry Kennedy who
undertook a major amount of the work in preparing this
document.
Organisation of a
seminar “Legal and Clinical Aspects of Irish
Mental Health Law” on the 21st November 2003.
Speakers included Dr. Darius Whelan, University College Cork who
gave a presentation on Mental Health Review Tribunals and Prof.
Paul McCutcheon, University of Limerick who spoke about the
Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002. The seminar was extremely
well attended and it is expected that a similar event will be
organised in the future.
2nd Report of the
Working Group for Child and Adolescent Services
–
Comments
submitted to the ICPsych Executive in September 2003.
Working Group on Patient
Escorts – The Faculty submitted a response to the
draft report of this working group to the ICPsych Executive in
September 2003. For more, click here.
Barr Tribunal –
Submission to the ICPsych Executive on firearms and mental illness
(April 2003). This submission was incorporated into an
overall response from the ICPsych to the Barr
Tribunal.
The Faculty has representatives on a number
of ICPsych committees such as:
The Chair of the Faculty is also a member of
the RCPsych Forensic Psychiatry Faculty.
European Meeting of Teachers of
Forensic Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatrists
with responsibilities for teaching in a number of European
countries held an inaugural meeting in Ghent, Belgium in late March
2004. The following countries were represented: Holland,
Germany, UK, France, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Ireland.
A series of discussions and meetings took place to identify ways in
which education in Forensic Psychiatry can be approved across the
Union.
Discussion took place with special reference to possible changes in
CCST arrangements. It became clear that due to working across
different legal jurisdictions links were not very strong either in
Europe and many countries were working in isolation. The
objective of the conference was to learn about training in other
systems. Further information is available by clicking
here.
New York, April 2004 - Joint
International Conference
As part of the ongoing commitment of the Forensic Psychiatry
Faculty of the Royal College to develop international
relationships, the Faculty held a joint meeting with the Tri State
Chapter of American Academy of Psychiatry and Law (AAPL) in New
York between 22-24 April 2004.
The programme included a visit to Rikers Island Jail and a visit to
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Centre, Wards Island. To read
more, click
here.
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