Facing the Future: Forensic Mental Health Services in Change

20.02.2009

9th Annual IAFMHS Conference | 24 -26 June 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 Professor Simon Wessely, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
“Telling Lies About Hitler”; The David Irving Libel Trial and what do we mean by “Taking a History”?

 Dr James Blair, NIMH, Bethesda, USA
“Functional neuro-imaging in forensic psychiatry: Where we are now and what the future might bring?”

 Associate Professor Kevin Douglas, Simon Fraser University, Canada
“What Should the Next Generation of Violence Risk Assessment and Management Look Like? Building on Current Knowledge to Advance the Field”

 Professor Bernadette McSherry, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
“Managing Fear: Preventive Detention and the Role of Mental Health Professionals”

 Co-sponsored by the Forensic Network

www.forensicnetwork.scot.nhs.uk

More information about the conference is available here