267367 Predicting and preventing violence and suicide in people with mental illness: A clinical perspective

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Renee Binder, MD , Psychiatry and Law Program, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
This presentation will give an overview of the California law that restricts access to weapons for persons with mental illness. From a front-line clinician's perspective, there will be a discussion of the application of the law to clinical populations, including patients' and families' and clinicians' reactions to the enactment of the law. The presentation will also discuss the effect of weapons screening policies in psychiatric emergency rooms and data on patients who carry weapons. The role of these laws in risk management and prevention of suicide and violence will be discussed.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related public policy
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe how gun restriction laws affect the work of clinicians who apply these laws, and how the laws are perceived by psychiatric patients and their family members.

Keywords: Policy/Policy Development, Mental Illness

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a forensic psychiatrist and the founder and director of UCSF's Psychiatry and the Law Program. In 2003, I served as a Congressional Health Policy Fellow in the US Senate. My past awards include UCSF's Royer Award for excellence in academic psychiatry and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's Seymour Pollack Award recognizing distinguished contributions to the field of forensic psychiatry.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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