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1District Clinical Director Mental Health, Murrumbidgee Local Health District, Wagga Wagga, NSW, and; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales Rural Clinical School, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.
Objectives:
This paper describes the main areas of civil forensic psychiatry (FP) and the skills required by psychiatric experts. Some specific areas of civil FP are discussed, including tort law reform, reliability of psychiatric evidence, contentious psychiatric disorders, and the many domains of civil FP.
Conclusions:
Civil FP is an important sub-specialty component of forensic psychiatry that requires greater emphasis in the training and continuing education of psychiatrists. A process of accrediting psychiatrists as having competency in advanced civil FP may be of value.
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