The Medical-Social and the Forensic-Psychiatric Aspects of Gerontology and Geriatric Psychiatry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781543412192)

In the course of the study, we have used the methodological approach to the scientific substantiation of the comprehensiveness of expert assessments of the mental state of patients-offenders suffering from cerebral-organic pathology. As a result, we have formulated the following general points:

--The forensic-psychiatric expert procedure is comprehensive in nature due to the participation of medical doctors, medical psychiatrists, and medical psychologists.

--Medical-social examination, which is carried out for the purposes of determining the social status of patients (disabled or not disabled) and their need for social protection, is a processthat is comprehensive due to participation of medical doctors, medical clinicians, and medical psychologists.

--The comprehensiveness of expert assessments--the forensic psychiatric and the medical social ones--is made more complex due to the comprehensiveness of each one of these expert assessments.

--The methodological approach to the comprehensiveness of expert assessments is based on taking into account the following three principles: the principle of continuity, the principle of cooperation, and the principle of psychological support for patients-offenders, provided to them over the entire length of their medical-social route.