Nov 5, 2021
In this episode, Dr. Charles Scott
addresses some of your unanswered questions from his presentation
on cannabis and violence.
Dr. Scott is Chief, Division of
Psychiatry and the Law, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Training
Director, and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of
California, Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. He is
Board Certified in Forensic Psychiatry, General Psychiatry, Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Addiction Psychiatry. Dr. Scott
has served as a forensic psychiatric consultant to jails, prisons,
maximum security forensic inpatient units, California Department of
State Hospitals, and as a consultant to the National Football
League (NFL) providing training on violence risk assessment for NFL
counselors.
His research interests include the
relationship of substance use to aggression among criminal
defendants, on the quality of forensic evaluations of criminal
responsibility, child witness testimony, malingering, and
assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder. He lectures nationally
on the topics of malingering, violence risk assessment, juvenile
violence, substance use and violence, the assessment of sex
offenders, correctional psychiatry, DSM-5 and the law, and
malpractice issues in mental health.