November 2009
Several of Doug’s articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Calvin M. Langton, et al, Prediction of Institutional Aggression among Personality Disordered Forensic Patients Using Actuarial and Structured Clinical Risk Assessment Tools: Prospective Evaluation of the HCR-20, VRS, Static-99, and Risk Matrix 2000, 15 Psychol. Crime & L. 635 (2009).
- AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Tija Zarkovic Palijan, Lana Muzinic, & Sanja Radeljak, Psychiatric Comorbidity in Forensic Psychiatry, 21 Psychiatria Danubina 429 (2009).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Jialiang Li & Xiao-Hua Zhou, Nonparametric and Semiparametric Estimation of the Three Way Receiver Operating Characteristic Surface, 139 J. Stat. Plan. & Inference 4133 (2009).
- Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 27 (1996), in Michele R. Spoont, et al., From Trauma to PTSD: Beliefs about Sensations, Symptoms, and Mental Illness, 19 Qualitative Health Res. 1456 (2009).
Doug and his article, Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a “Gold Standard,” L. & Hum. Behavior (2009) (with Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo, & Douglas S. Lehrer), were featured in First-of-Kind Study Shows Model Can Be Used to Rate Courtroom Psychiatric Experts' Performance, UC News, Oct. 12, 2009.
October 2009
Douglas published Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a “Gold Standard," Law & Human Behavior (2009) (with Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer). His article, Testifying in Civil Commitment Hearings: Your Performance in Court Can Help Unwilling Patients Get the Care They Need (with B. Todd Thatcher), was accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Current Psychiatry.
Two of Douglas’s articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in T. E. McEwan, et al. Violence in Stalking Situations, 39 Psychol. Med. 1469 (2009); and Meghan Shapiro, An Overdose of Dangerousness: How “Future Dangerousness” Catches the Least Culpable Capital Defendants and Undermines the Rationale for the Executions it Supports, 35 Am. J. Crim. L. 145 (2008).
- Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. of Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in United States v. Rodriguez, 2009 WL 2929808 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 8, 2009).
Summer 2009
Douglas published:
His article, Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a “Gold Standard” (with co-authors Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer) was accepted for publication in Law and Human Behavior.
Douglas gave the following presentations:
- Civil Commitment: When Courts Allow Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 4, 2009.
- Implications of Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms? Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 4, 2009.
- Risk Assessment, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 9, 2009.
- Violence and Mental Illness: Problems with Predictions, H. I. Davis Memorial Lecture, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 10, 2009 (1 hr CME).
- How Accurate Are Assessments of Competence To Stand Trial? Guest Lecture Series, Summit Behavioral Healthcare, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11, 2009.
- Right to Refuse Treatment and Guardianship, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 18, 2009.
- Psychological Damages in Tort Litigation, Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712), Xavier University, June 25, 2009.
- Competence to Maintain a Divorce Action: When Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (with 3L Weaver Fellow Amanda N. Shoemaker) as part of the 13th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.
Several of Douglas’s publications were cited:
- AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Alec Buchanan & Howard Zonana, 32 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 142 (2009).
- Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Theodore Donaldson & Richard Wollert, A Mathematical Proof and Example That Bayes's Theorem Is Fundamental to Actuarial Estimates of Sexual Recidivism Risk, 20 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 206 (2008); in James Vess, Fear and Loathing in Public Policy: Ethical Issues in Laws for Sex Offenders, 14 Aggression & Violent Behav. 264 (2009); in R. Karl Hanson & Kelly E. Morton-Bourgon, The Accuracy of Recidivism Risk Assessments for Sexual Offenders: A Meta-Analysis of 118 Prediction Studies, 21 Psychol. Assessment 1 (2009); and, in Eric Beauregard & Tom Mieczkowski, Testing the Predictive Utility of the Static-99: A Bayes Analysis, 14 Legal & Criminological Psychol. 187 (2009).
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Nina Lindberg, et al., Psychopathic Traits and Offender Characteristics - A Nationwide Consecutive Sample of Homicidal Male Adolescents, 9 BMC Psychiatry Art. No. 18, May 6 2009; in Helina Hakkanen-Nyholm, et al. Homicides with Mutilation of the Victim's Body, 54 J. Forensic Sci. 933 (2009); in Roope Tikkanen, et al. Recidivistic Offending and Mortality in Alcoholic Violent Offenders: A Prospective Follow-up Study, 168 Psychiatry Res. 18 (2009); in Jerome Endrass, et al. Accuracy of the Static-99 in Predicting Recidivism in Switzerland, 53 Int’l J. of Offender Therapy & Comp. Criminology 482 (2009); and, in R. Karl Hanson, The Psychological Assessment of Risk for Crime and Violence, 50 Can. Psychol.172 (2009).
- Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms, 33 N.M. L. Rev. 255 (2003), in Anthony E. Giardino, Combat Veterans, Mental Health Issues, and the Death Penalty: Addressing the Impact of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2955 (2009).
- Biological Markers and Psychiatric-diagnosis - Risk-benefit Balancing Using ROC Analysis, 29 Biological Psychiatry 811 (1991)(with E. Somoza), in Lyle D. Broemeling, Vickers, A. J. (2008), "Decision Analysis for the Evaluation of Diagnostic Test Prediction Models, and Molecular Models," The American Statistician, 62,314-320: Comment and Reply, 63 Am. Statistician 198 (2009).
- Comparing and Optimizing Diagnostic-tests - An Information-theoretical Approach, 12 Med. Decis. Making 179 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza), in Laxmaiah Manchikanti, et al., Evidence-based Medicine, Systematic Reviews, and Guidelines in Interventional Pain Management: Part 5. Diagnostic Accuracy Studies, 12 Pain Physician 517 (2009).
- Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Matthew Large, Dangerousness and Risk Assessment, 17 Australasian Psychiatry 336 (2009).
- Is Expert Psychiatric Testimony Fundamentally Immoral?, 17 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 347 (1994), in Alison Roscoe, et al. Psychiatric Recommendations to the Court as Regards Homicide Perpetrators, 20 J Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 366 (2009).
- Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Public Pol’y & L. 73 (1996) (with M. B. Kapp) in Aaron Ang, et al. Live or Let Die: Ethical Issues in a Psychiatric Patient with End-stage Renal Failure, 38 Annals Acad. Med. Singapore 370 (2009).
- Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation, 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 263 (2009) (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg), in Lindsay Beth Willett, Forward, 13 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. I (2009).
- Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. of Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Douglas R. Morris & George F. Parker, Effects of Advanced Age and Dementia on Restoration of Competence to Stand Trial, 32 Int’l J. L. & Psychiatry 156 (2009).
- Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med. Decis. Making 358 (1995), in Jacqueline Cohen, Samuel Garman, & Wilpen Gorr, Empirical Calibration of Time Series Monitoring Methods Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves, 25 Int’l J. Forecasting 484 (2009).
- ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Robert J. W. Clift, Gordana Rajlic, & Heather M. Gretton, Discriminative and Predictive Validity of the Penile Plethysmograph in Adolescent Sex Offenders, 21 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 335 (2009).
- Topiramate as Treatment for Alcohol Dependence, 299 JAMA 405 (2008) (with Sarah Stringer & Marie Rueve), in George F. Koob, G. Kenneth Lloyd & Barbara J. Mason, Development of Pharmacotherapies for Drug Addiction: A Rosetta Stone Approach, 8 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 500 (2009).
June 2009
Douglas published Smoking Allowed: Is Hospital Policy a Liability Risk?, Current Psychiatry, May 2009, pp. 28-31.
He made the following presentations:
- When to Throw Away the Key: Mental Health Prediction of Sexual Offending. Department of Psychology Colloquium, Sinclair College, Dayton, Ohio, May 15, 2009.
- The Mental Health Professional as Expert Witness. Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712),
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 2009.
- Understanding and Assessing ‘Legal Insanity’. Forensic Psychology class (PSYC 712),
Xavier University, May 28, 2009.
Several of his publications were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Robert John Zagar, et al., Accepted Legal Applications of Actuarial Testing and Delinquency Interventions: Examples of Savings in Real-life Situations, 104 Psychol. Rep. 339 (Sp. Iss. SI FEB 2009).
- "Hired Guns," "Whores, "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute, 27 J. Am.. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999), in Matthew Large, Olav Nielssen, & Gordon Elliott, Reliability of Psychiatric Evidence in Serious Criminal Matters: Fitness to Stand Trial and the Defence of Mental Illness, 43 Austl. & N.Z. J. of Psychiatry 446 (2009).
- Interpreting Clinical Evidence of Malingering: A Bayesian Perspective, 28 J Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 293 (2000), in Sanford L. Drob, Kevin B.Meehan, & Shari E. Waxman, Clinical and Conceptual Problems in the Attribution of Malingering in Forensic Evaluations, 37 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 98 (2009).
- Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: a Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger), in John R. Crawford, Paul H. Garthwaite, & Karolina Betkowska, Bayes' Theorem and Diagnostic Tests in Neuropsychology: Interval Estimates for Post-test Probabilities, 23 Clin. Neuropsychologist 624 (2009).
- Malpractice and the Psychiatrist: A Primer for Residents, 21 Acad. Psychiatry 11 (1997), in Carol I. Ping Tsao & Joseph Layde, Three-Session Psychiatric Malpractice Curriculum for Senior Psychiatry Residents, 33 Acad. Psychiatry 160 (2009).
- Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter", 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in John J. Barrett, et al., Criterion Validity of the Financial Skills Subscale of the Direct Assessment of Functional Status Scale,
166 Psychiatry Res. 148 (Apr. 30 2009).
- Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 34 (2007), in Mae C. Quinn, Reconceptualizing Competence: An Appeal, 66 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 259 (2009).
- Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism, 47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D. Sanders), in Ed Day, et al., Predictors of Psychological Morbidity in Liver Transplant Assessment Candidates: Is Alcohol Abuse or Dependence a Factor? 22 Transplant Int’l 606 (2009).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Matthew S Wandishin & Steven J. Mullen, Multiclass ROC Analysis, 24 Weather & Forecasting 530 (2009) and Mehul.P. Sampat, et al., Indexes for Three-Class Classification Performance Assessment-An Empirical Comparison, 13 IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 300 (2009).
May 2009
Douglas completed a manuscript, What Can We Learn from Recent Antipsychotic Drug Litigation? (with 3L Weaver fellow Jill L. Steinberg). Two of his articles were accepted for publication:
Three of Douglas’s articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Jeremy Coid, et al., Gender Differences in Structured Risk Assessment: Comparing the Accuracy of Five Instruments, 77 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 337 (2009).
- Diagnostic-tests and Information-theory, 4 J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosciences, 95 (1992), in Yi N. Wang, A Two-Dimensional Hybrid Logic of Subset Spaces, Logic and its Applications 5378: 19(6) (2009).
- Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism, 47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D Sanders), in Cuneyt Evren & Ercan Dalbudak, Relationship of Personality Trait Impulsivity with Clinical Variables in Male Alcohol-Dependent Inpatients, 19 Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bulteni-Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology 15 (2009).
Douglas was quoted in Braden v. Bagley, No. 2:04-CV-842, 2009 WL 922363 (S.D.Ohio).
April 2009
Douglas published Commentary: Let's Think about Human Factors, Not Human Failings, 37 J Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 25 (2009). He completed two manuscripts:
- Promoting, Prescribing, and Pushing Pills: Understanding the Lessons of Antipsychotic Drug Litigation (with co-author and Weaver Fellow Jill L. Steinberg).
- Does the Law Recognize a Specific Competence to Divorce? (with co-author and Weaver Fellow Amanda N. Shoemaker).
Douglas attended the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Chicago. Several of his articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994),
in Stuart D. M. Thomas, et al., Factors Associated with Seclusion in a Statewide Forensic Psychiatric Service in Australia over a 2-year Period, 18 Int’l J. Mental Health Nursing 2 (2009).
- The Imperfection of Protection through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, 30 J. Legal Med. 109 (2009), in William F. Sherwood, The Dangerous Patient: Medical, Legal, and Public Policy Responses–A Symposium Introduction and Overview, 30 J. Legal Med. 1 (2009); and Richard A. Goodman, The "Dangerous" Infected Patient: An Approach to Characterizing the Risks Posed by Persons with Communicable Infectious Diseases, 30 J. Legal Med. 13 (2009).
- ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Kirsten M. Wilkins, et al., Clinical Utility of the Hopkins Competency Assessment Test on an Inpatient Geropsychiatry Unit, 24 Am. J. of Alzheimers Disease & Other Dementias 34 (2009).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Ben Van Calster, Multi-class AUC Metrics and
Weighted Alternatives, 1-8 IEEE Inter’l Joint Conference on Neural Networks 1390 (2008); and Todd A. Alonzo, A Comparison of Tests for Restricted Orderings in the Three-class Case, 28 Stat. in Med. 1144 (2009).
- Unbuckling the 'Chemical Straitjacket': The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the
Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002), in Lars Noah, Comfortably Numb: Medicalizing (And Mitigating) Pain-and-Suffering Damages, 42 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 431 (2009).
March 2009
Douglas published The Imperfection of Protection Through Detection and Intervention: Lessons From Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, 30 J. Leg. Med. 109 (2009). He completed the manuscript for Is Letting Inpatients Smoke Malpractice?, which will be published in Current Psychiatry.
Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:
- Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Richard S. Saver, In Tepid Defense of Population Health: Physicians and Antibiotic Resistance, 34 Am. J.L. & Med. 431 (2008).
- ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Aleksandar A. Jovanovic, et al., Predicting Violence in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 66 Vojnosanitetski
Pregled 13 (2009).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He & Eric C. Fey, The Validity of Three-Class Hotelling Trace (3-HT) in Describing Three-Class Task Performance: Comparison of Three-Class Volume Under
ROC Surface (VUS) and 3-HT, 28 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 185 (2009).
February 2009
Douglas completed a manuscript, Incompetence to Divorce: When Breaking up is Odd to Do, with co-author and 3L Weaver Fellow Mandy Shoemaker. He published Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events, in Correctional Service of Canada, Sexual Homicide and Paraphilias: The Correctional Service of Canada’s Experts Forum 2007, 41 (A. J. R. Harris & C. A. Page, eds. 2008). Douglas was was quoted in Mental Patients Kept in Isolation, UC News-Record, Jan. 21, 2009.
Several of his articles were cited:
- Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Zoe N. Hilton & Grant T. Harris, How Nonrecidivism Affects Predictive Accuracy Evidence from a Cross-Validation of the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA),
24 J. Interpers. Violence 326 (2009).
- Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behavior 229 (2003); Interpreting Clinical Evidence of Malingering: A Bayesian Perspective, 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 293 (2000); Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: A Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger); and Presenting Evidence of Malingering to Courts: Insights from Decision Theory, 14 Behav. Sci. Law 271 (1996) (with Kathleen J. Hart), in Michael Proeve, Issues in the Application of Bayes' Theorem to Child Abuse Decision Making, 14 Child Maltreatment 114 (2009).
- ‘A Fool for a Client’: Print Portrayals of 49 Pro Se Criminal Defendants, 29 J Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 408 (2001) (with N. W. Dunsieth, Jr.), in Douglas R. Morris & Richard L. Frierson, Pro Se Competence in the Aftermath of Indiana v. Edwards, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 551 (2008).
- Maximizing Diagnostic Information from the Dexamethasone Suppression Test - An Approach to Criterion Selection Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis, 46 Archives of Gen. Psychiatry 653 (1989) (with Eugene Somoza), in Jussi Jokinen & Peter Nordstrom, HPA Axis Hyperactivity as Suicide Predictor in Elderly Mood Disorder Inpatients, 33 Psychoneuroendocrinology 1387 (2008).
- Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in J. A. Mackenzie, N. B. Lincoln, & G. J. Newby, Capacity to Make a Decision about Discharge Destination after Stroke: A Pilot Study, 22 Clinical Rehabilitation 1116 (2008).
- Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 34 (2007), in Douglas R. Morris & George F. Parker, Jackson's Indiana: State Hospital Competence Restoration in Indiana, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 522 (2008).
January 2009
Douglas made the following presentations:
- Dangerousness Decisions: Does Possible Violence Justify Involuntary Confinement?, Grand Rounds,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama.
- Managing Attorney Stress with Pharmaceuticals: Is This What You Signed Up for When You Went to Law School?, National Business Institute CLE Seminar, Dayton, OH
- Managing Attorney Stress with Pharmaceuticals: Is This What You Signed Up for When You Went to Law School?, National Business Institute CLE Seminar, Cincinnati, OH
Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994),
in Tim Brennan, William Dieterich, & Beate Ehret, Evaluating the Predictive Validity of the Compas Risk and Needs Assessment System, 36 Crim. Just.& Behav. 21 (2009).
- Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Sarah M. Manchak, Jennifer Lynne Skeem, & Kevin S. Douglas, Utility of the Revised Level of Service Inventory (LSI-R), in Predicting Recidivism after Long-Term Incarceration, 32 L. & Hum. Behavior 477 (2008).
- Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behavior 229 (2003), in Kellie Batt, E. Arthur Shores, & Eugene Chekaluk, The Effect of Distraction on the Word Memory Test and Test of Memory Malingering Performance in Patients with a Severe Brain Injury, 14 J. of the Int’l Neuropsychological Soc’y 1074 (2008).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He, Xiyun Song, & Eric C. Frey,
Application of Three-Class ROC Analysis to Task-Based Image Quality Assessment of Simultaneous Dual-Isotope Myocardial Perfusion SPECT, 27 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 1556 (Sp. Iss. SI Nov. 2008).
December 2008
Douglas posted Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners in the Absence of a Diagnostic 'Gold Standard' (with Michael D. Bowen, David Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer) on SSRN
Several of Douglas’s articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence—Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Barbara E. McDermott, et al., The Conditional Release of Insanity Acquittees: Three Decades of Decision-Making, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 329 (2008); in John M. Fabian, Current Standards and Practices in Violence Risk Assessment at a Maximum Security Forensic Hospital Following a High Profile Sexual Homicide, 13 Aggression & Violent Behav. 337 (2008); and in Pamela R. Blair, David K. Marcus, & Marcus T. Boccaccini, Is There an Allegiance Effect for Assessment Instruments? Actuarial Risk Assessment as an Exemplar, 15 Clin. Psychol.-Science & Prac. 346 (2008).
- Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Nicholas P. Gruszauskas, et al., Performance of Breast Ultrasound Computer-aided Diagnosis: Dependence on Image Selection, 15 Acad. Radiology 1234 (2008).
- ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-Tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Aleksandar A. Jovanovic, et al., Reliability and Validity of DSM-IV Axis V Scales in a Clinical Sample of Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 20 Psychiatria Danubina 286 (2008) and in Diana Zwahlen, et al., Screening Cancer Patients' Families with the Distress Thermometer (DT): A Validation Study, 17 Psycho-Oncology 959 (2008).
November 2008
Douglas published, Going Outside Your Area of Expertise: How Far Is Too Far?, Current Psychiatry 2008;7(10):53-56 (with Christina G. Weston, MD). He presented Psychological Tests in CST Assessments: Useful or Superfluous? (with G. Sokolov & P. Zapf), and Adjudicative Competence: A Primer on Difficult Cases (with A. T. Nemoianu, C. A. Martone, R. Wettstein, & L. M. Chism) at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Seattle.
Several of Douglas's articles were cited:
- Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse—J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Calvin M. Langton, et al., Further Investigation of Findings Reported for the Minnesota Sex Offender Screening Tool-Revised, 23 J. Interpersonal Violence 1363 (2008).
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Alma Au, et al., A Preliminary Validation of the Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk (B-SAFER) in Hong Kong, 23 J Family Violence 727 (2008).
- Sex on the Wards: Conundra for Clinicians, 25 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 441 (1997), in Diana de Souza, et al., Sexuality, Vulnerability to HIV, and Mental Health: An Ethnographic Study of Psychiatric Institutions, 23 Cadernos de Saude Publica 2224 (2007).
October 2008
Douglas submitted his article, Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Examiners In the Absence of a Diagnostic “Gold Standard” (with Michael D. Bowen, David J. Vanness, David Bienenfeld, Terry Correll, Jerald Kay, William M. Klykylo & Douglas S. Lehrer), for publication. His article, Going Outside Your Area of Expertise: How Far Is Too Far? Current Psychiatry (with Christina G. Weston), was accepted for publication.
Douglas published two articles:
Douglas presented Psychiatric Perspectives on Sin and Repentance to Congregation Ohav Shalom in Cincinnati.
Several of Douglas's articles were cited:
- AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Kirk Heilbrun, et al., Standards of Practice and Care in Forensic Mental Health Assessment - Legal, Professional, and Principles-based Considerations, 14 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 1 (2008); and Sharron E. Dawes, Barton W. Palmer, & Dilip V. Jeste, Adjudicative Competence, 21 Current Opinion in Psychiatry 490 (2008).
- Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse - A Journal of Research and Treatment 41 (2006), in James Vess, Sex Offender Risk Assessment: Consideration of Human Rights in Community Protection Legislation, 13 Legal & Criminological Psychol. 245 (2008).
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Kevin S. Douglas, Monica E. Epstein, & Norman G. Poythress, Criminal Recidivism among Juvenile Offenders: Testing the Incremental and Predictive Validity of Three Measures of Psychopathic Features, 32 L. & Hum. Behav. 423 (2008).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Shuangge Ma & Jian Huang, Penalized Feature Selection and Classification in Bioinformatics, 9 Briefings in Bioinformatics 392 (2008).
- Unbuckling the 'Chemical Straitjacket': The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002), in Steven K. Erickson, The Myth of Mental Disorder: Transsubstantive Behavior and Taxometric Psychiatry, 41 Akron L. Rev. 67 (2008).
Summer 2008
Douglas presented How Accurate Are Psychiatrists' Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial? as part of the 12th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.
He made the following presentations:
- How Accurate Are Psychiatrists' Determinations of Competence to Stand Trial?, Cincinnati Psychiatric Society, Kingsgate Conference Center, June 17, 2008 (1 hr CME)
- Parashat Balak, Northern Hills Synagogue-Congregation Bnai Avraham, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12, 2008
- Avoiding Trouble: 'Off-Label' Pharmacotherapy and Malpractice Liability, Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, Amelia Island, Florida, August 1, 2008 (1 hr CME)
- Dodging Troubles: Keys to Good Documentation, Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, Amelia Island, Florida, August 1, 2008 (1¼ hr CME)
He rejoined the faculty of the U.C. Department of Psychiatry and became Associate Training Director for the U.C. Department of Psychiatry's forensic psychiatry fellowship, July 2008 and received the following two awards:
- Received the Chair's Recognition Award, Wright State University Department of Psychiatry, June 2008
- Received the Career Achievement Award from Residents of the W.S.U. Department of Psychiatry, June 2008
Several of Douglas's articles were cited:
- AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. S3 (2007), in Ezra E. H. Griffith, Stone's Views of 25 Years Ago Have Now Shifted Incrementally, 36 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 201 (2008).
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Henry P. B. Lodewijks, et al. SAVRY Risk Assessment in Violent Dutch Adolescents - Relation to Sentencing and Recidivism, 35 Crim. Just. & Behav. 696 (2008); Dae-Young Kim, Hee-Jong Joo, & William P. Mccarty, Risk Assessment and Classification of Day Reporting Center Clients - An Actuarial Approach, 35 Crim. Just. & Behav. 792 (2008); Henry P. B. Lodewijks, et al., Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) During Residential Treatment, 31 Int'l J. L. & Psychiatry 263 (2008); and Stuart D. M. Thomas, Harm Associated with Stalking Victimization, 42 Austl. & N. Z. J. Psychiatry 800 (2008).
- Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (2000) (with Douglas S. Lehrer), in Rosa Liperoti, Claudio Pedone, & Andea Corsonello, Antipsychotics for the Treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), 6 Current Neuropharmacology 117 (2008).
- Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behavior 229 (2003), in Karen Franklin, Malingering as a Dichotomous Variable: Case Report on an Insanity Defendant, 8 J. of Forensic Psychol. Prac. (2008).
- "Hired Guns," "Whores, "Prostitutes": Case Law References to Clinicians of Ill Repute, 27 J. Am.. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 414 (1999), in Kacy L. Mullen & John F. Edens, Case Law Survey of the Personality Assessment Inventory: Examining its Role in Civil and Criminal Trials, 90 J. Personality Assessment 300 (2008).
- Resampling Techniques in the Analysis of Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Roberto Romero, et al., Proteomic Analysis of Amniotic Fluid to Identify Women with Preterm Labor and Intra-amniotic Inflammation/infection: The Use of a Novel Computational Method to Analyze Mass Spectrometric Profiling, 21 J. Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Med. 367 (2008); and Karen Drukker, et al., Breast US Computer-aided Diagnosis Workstation: Performance with a Large Clinical Diagnostic Population, 248 Radiology 392 (2008).
- ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic-tests, 3 J. Neuropsychiatry & Clin. Neurosciences 330 (1991) (with E. Somoza), in Monica Gammelgard, et al., The Predictive Validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) among Institutionalised Adolescents, 19 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 352 (2008).
- Tests of a Symptom Checklist to Screen for Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Alcoholism, 47 Comprehensive Psychiatry 227 (2006) (with Ashley B. Benjamin, Nancy S. Graves, & Richard D. Sanders), in Cueneyt Evren, Ercan Dalbudak, & Duran Cakmak, Alexithymia and Personality in Relation to Dimensions of Psychopathology in Male Alcohol-dependent Inpatients, 18 Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bulteni - Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology 1 (2008).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Jialiang Li & Jason P. Fine, ROC Analysis with Multiple Classes and Multiple Tests: Methodology and its Application in Microarray Studies, 9 Biostatistics 566 (2008); and Arie Ben-David, About the Relationship between ROC Curves and Cohen's Kappa, 21 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 874 (2008).
- Unbuckling the 'Chemical Straitjacket': The Legal Significance of Recent Advances in the Pharmacological Treatment of Psychosis, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 1033 (2002), in Vidisha Barua, "Synthetic Sanity": A Way Around the Eighth Amendment?, 44 Crim. L. Bull. 4 (2008).
Douglas was interviewed on WLA, July 30, 2008 and quoted in:
June 2008
Douglas received the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for outstanding contributions to the literature in forensic psychiatry in recognition of his article, Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006). He delivered a lecture on the topic at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C..
Douglas made two other presentations:
- The Imperfections of Protection Through Detection and Intervention: Lessons from Three Decades of Research on the Psychiatric Assessment of Violence Risk, at The Dangerous Patient: Medical, Legal and Public Policy Responses, Health Policy Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Law (see coverage in the Southern Illinoisan).
- Quantifying the Accuracy of Forensic Assessments in the Absence of a Diagnostic “Gold Standard,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University School of Medicine (Elizabeth Place).
Douglas published a Malpractice Rx column, Violence Risk: Is Clinical Judgment Enough?, 7 Current Psychiatry 70 (2008). He completed an article, Divorce, Custody, and Parental Consent for Psychiatric Treatment (with Christina G. Weston), forthcoming in Current Psychiatry).
Two of Douglas's articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Susanne Bengtson, Is Newer Better? A Cross-validation of the Static-2002 and the Risk Matrix 2000 in a Danish Sample of Sexual Offenders, 14 Psychol. Crime & L. 85 (2008); Jonathan Simon, Reversal of Fortune: The Resurgence of Individual Risk Assessment in Criminal Justice, 1 Ann. Rev .L, &. Soc. Sci. 397 (2005); Howard N. Garb, Clinical Judgment and Decision Making, 1 Ann. Rev. Clinical Psychol.67 (2005); and Scott I. Vrieze & William M. Grove, Predicting Sex Offender Recidivism. I. Correcting for Item Overselection and Accuracy Overestimation in Scale Development. Ii. Sampling Error-induced Attenuation of Predictive Validity over Base Rate Information, 32 Law & Hum. Behav. 266 (2008).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Xin He & Eric C. Frey, The Meaning and Use of the Volume under a Three-class ROC Surface (VUS), 27 IEEE Transactions Med. Imaging 577 (2008); Chris Bourke, et al., On Reoptimizing Multi-class Classifiers, 71 Machine Learning 219 (2008).
May 2008
Douglas published Evaluate Liability Risks in Prescribing, 7 Current Psychiatry 91 (2008). He completed a new article, Use of Actuarial Instruments in Clinical Practice.
Douglas made the following presentations:
- Thinking Clearly About the Accuracy of Actuarial Risk Assessment Instruments: A Moderated Panel Discussion, American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.
- How Accurate Are Determinations of Competence to Stand Trial? Poster presentation, American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.
- Assessing Adjudicative Competence: How Accurate?, Annual Meeting, Midwest Chapter of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Cleveland, OH
Several of Douglas's articles were cited:
- Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse-A Journal of Research and Treatment 41 (2006), and Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Richard Wollert, Poor Diagnostic Reliability, the Null-Bayes Logic Model, and Their Implications for Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations, 13 Psych., Pub. Pol'y 167 (2007).
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Amarendra N. Singh, Assessment and Prediction of Violence in Psychiatric Patients, 15 Int'l Med. J.3 (2008).
- Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (December 2000) (with Douglas S. Lehrer), in John M. Kane, et al., Long-term Efficacy and Safety of Iloperidone - Results from 3 Clinical Trials for the Treatment of Schizophrenia, 28 J. Clin. Psychopharmacology S29-S35 (2008).
- Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in Debora A. Perlick, et al., Association of Symptomatology and Cognitive Deficits to Functional Capacity in Schizophrenia, 99 Schizophrenia Res. 192 (2008).
April 2008
Several of Douglas's articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Mairead C. Dolan & Charlotte E. Rennie, The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth as a Predictor of Recidivism in a United Kingdom Cohort of Adolescent Offenders with Conduct Disorder, 20 Psychol. Assessment 35 (2008).
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), Commentary: Assessing the Risk of Violence - Are "Accurate" Predictions Useful?, 28 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry & L. 272 (2000), Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse J. Res. Treatment 41 (2006), and Avoiding Errors about `Margins of Error' , 191 Brit. J. Psychiatry 561 (2007), in Alec Buchanan, Risk of Violence by Psychiatric Patients: Beyond the "Actuarial Versus Clinical" Assessment Debate, 59 Psych. Serv. 184 (2008).
- Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behav. 229 (2003), in Charles W. Murdock, Business Organizations (West, Illinois Practice Series, 2007 Supp.).
- Measuring Decisional Capacity: Cautions on the Construction of a ''Capacimeter'', 2 Psychol. Pub. Pol. L. 73 (1996), in Jennifer Moyer & Daniel C. Marson, Assessment of Decision-making Capacity in Older Adults: An Emerging Area of Practice and Research, 62 Js. Geront. Ser. B-Psychol. Sci. Soc. Sci. P3 (Jan. 2007).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Constantin T. Yiannoutsos, Christos T. Nakas, & Bradford A. Navia, Assessing Multiple-group Diagnostic Problems with Multi-dimensional Receiver Operating Characteristic Surfaces: Application to Proton MR Spectroscopy (MRS) in HIV-related Neurological Injury, 40 Neuroimage 248 (Mar. 1, 2008) and, in Thomas C. W. Landgrebe & Robert P. W. Duin, Efficient Multiclass ROC Approximation by Decomposition via Confusion Matrix Perturbation Analysis, 30 IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 810 (May 2008).
- Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: A Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry L. 27 (1996), in Nina A. Sayer, et al., Changes in Psychiatric Status and Service Use Associated with Continued Compensation Seeking after Claim Determinations for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 21 J. Traum. Stress 40 (Feb. 2008).
Douglas has begun publishing a new column in Current Psychiatry, Malpractice Rx.
March 2008
Doug published Tips To Make Documentation Easier, Faster, and More Satisfying, Current Psychiatry, Vol. 7(2), pp. 80, 84-86 (2008). He completed an article, How to Evaluate the Risks of Prescribing.
Doug presented Subjects Lacking Capacity to Consent at the Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Conference in Cincinnati. Several of his articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clin. Psychology 783 (1994), in Kaeko Yokota, et al., Application of the Behavioral Investigative Support System for Profiling Perpetrators of Serial Sexual Assaults, 25 Behav. Sci.& L. 841 (2008); Jerome Endrass, et al., Using the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) to Predict In-prison Aggressive Behavior in a Swiss Offender Population, 52 Int'l J. Offender Therapy & Comp. Criminology 81 (2008); and Jodi L. Viljoen, et al. Assessing Risk for Violence in Adolescents Who Have Sexually Offended, 35 Crim. Just. & Behav. 5 (2008).
- Is Prosecution "Medically Appropriate"?, 31 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005), in Developments in the Law -- The Law of Mental Illness, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 1121 (2008).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Berkman Saliner, et al., Performance Analysis of Three-class Classifiers: Properties of a 3-d ROC Surface and the Normalized Volume under the Surface for the Ideal Observer, 27 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 215 (2008); and Yueh-Yun Chi & Xiao-Hua Zhou, Receiver Operating Characteristic Surfaces in the Presence of Verification Bias, 57 J. Royal Statistical Soc. Series C-Applied Statistics 1 (Part 1 2008).
February 2008
Douglas was awarded the Manfred S. Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry in recognition of his article, Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006). The award was established in 1967 to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature on forensic psychiatry. Douglas will receive the award and deliver the awardee lecture at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C. on May 8 (2008).
Douglas published Topiramate as Treatment for Alcohol Dependence, 299 JAMA 405 (2008) (with Stringer & Rueve).
Two of Douglas's articles were accepted for publication:
- Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
- Tips to Make Documentation Easier, Faster, and More Satisfying, in Current Psychiatry.
Several of Douglas's articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence - Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clinical Psychology 783 (1994), in Nicola S. Gray, et al. Predicting Future Reconviction in Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities: The Predictive Efficacy of VRAG, PCL-SV, and the HCR-20, 19 Psychological Assessment 474 (2007).
- Dangerousness Decisions: an Essay on the Mathematics of Clinical Violence Predictions and Involuntary Hospitalization, 2 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable 95 (1995), in Alanna Buchanan, Conversation: GPS Monitoring of Domestic Violence Offenders: a Racial Justice Perspective on Monitoring Domestic Violence Offenders Using GPS Systems, 43 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 271 (2008).
- Evaluating Violence Risk "By the Book": a Review of Hcr-20: Assessing Risk for Violence, Version 2 and the Manual for the Sexual Violence Risk 20, 18 Behav. Sci. L. 781 (2000), in Barry S. Cooper, et al., Clinical-forensic Risk Assessment: The past and Current State of Affairs, 7 J. Forensic Psychol. Prac. 1 (2007).
- Resampling Techniques in the Analysis at Non-binormal ROC Data, 15 Med Decis Making 358 (1995), in Dongsheng Hu, et al., Central Rather than Overall Obesity Is Related to Diabetes in the Chinese Population: the Interasia Study, 15 Obesity 2809 (2007).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Trevor I. Laine & Kenneth W. Bauer, 35 Computers & Operations Research 1789 (2008).
- Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: a Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in B. Christopher Frueh, et al. US Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Policies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Administrative Trends and Implications for Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Research, 97 Am. J. Pub. Health 2143 (2007).
December 2007
Doug published Avoiding Errors about “Margins of Error,” Brit J Psychiatry 2007; 191:561 (with Sellke). His article, Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove, was accepted for publication in Law and Human Behavior.
Several of Doug's articles were cited:
- Conventional and Atypical Antipsychotics and the Evolving Standard of Care, 51 Psychiatric Serv. 1528 (December 2000), in John A. Larsen, Symbolic Healing of Early Psychosis: Psychoeducation and Sociocultural Processes of Recovery, 31 (3) Cult. Med. & Psychiatry 283 (Sept. 2007).
- Is Prosecution "Medically Appropriate"?, 31 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 15 (2005), in Jennifer K. Crawford, Who Really Decides? Forcibly Medicating Criminal Defendants: United States v. Archuleta, 3 J. Health & Biomed. L. 191 (2007).
- Three-Way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Todd A. Alonzo & Christos T. Nakas, Comparison of ROC Umbrella Volumes with an Application to the Assessment of Lung Cancer Diagnostic Markers, 49 (5) Biometrical J. 654 (Aug. 2007) and in Darrin C. Edwards & Charles E. Metz, Optimization of Restricted ROC Surfaces in Three-class Classification Tasks, 26 (10) IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 1345 (Oct. 2007).
November 2007
Doug and Betsy Malloy organized the symposium, Revising the Frontiers of Responsibility and Blame: How Neuroscience Is Reshaping Philosophy and the Criminal Law, co-sponsored by the Glenn M. Weaver Institute, the UC Department of Philosophy, and the UC College of Medicine. Doug served as Master of Ceremonies at the symposium. Speakers included:
- John Bickle, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy).
- Valerie Hardcastle, Ph.D. (Dean, UC McMicken College of Arts and Sciences).
- Douglas S. Lehrer, M.D. (Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine).
- Stephen J. Morse, J.D., Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania School of Law).
- Stephen M. Strakowski, M.D. (University of Cincinnati, Department of Psychiatry).
- Glen Weissenberger, J.D. (Dean, DePaul University School of Law).
Doug and the entire College community mourn Dr. Glenn Weaver, who died on October 25 at age 86.
Doug's article, Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove, was accepted for publication in Law & Human Behavior.
Doug attended and presented two papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law in Miami Beach, Florida:
- Stalking: From Risk Assessment to Prosecution (panel with Debra A. Pinals, Phillip J. Resnick, and James L. Knoll).
- Assessing Adjudicative Competence: How Accurate?
Two of Doug's articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J Consulting Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Wagdy Loza, Angele MacTavish, & Amel Loza-Fanous, A Nine-year Follow-up Study on the Predictive Validity of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire for Predicting Violent and Nonviolent Recidivism, 22 J. Interpersonal Violence 1144 (2007); Mairead Dolan & Rachael Fullam, The Validity of the Violence Risk Scale Second Edition (VRS-2) in a British Forensic Inpatient Sample, 18 J. Forensic Psychiatry & Psychol. 381 (2007); in Joel D. Lieberman, et al. Determining Dangerousness in Sexually Violent Predator Evaluations: Cognitive-experiential Self-theory and Juror Judgments of Expert Testimony, 25 Behav. Sci. & L. 507 (2007); Roger Almvik, Phil Woods, & Kirsten Rasmussen, Assessing Risk for Imminent Violence in the Elderly: The Broset Violence Checklist, 22 Int'l J. Geriatric Psychiatry 862 (2007); Matthew K. Nock & Mahzarin R. Banaji, Prediction of Suicide Ideation and Attempts among Adolescents Using a Brief Performance-Based Test, 75 J. Consulting Clin Psychology 707 (2007); and Daryl G. Kroner, Directions for Violence and Sexual Risk Assessment in Correctional Psychology, 34 Crim. Just. & Behav. 906 (2007).
- Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 34 (2007), in Hal Wortzel et al., Crisis in the Treatment of Incompetence to Proceed to Trial: Harbinger of a Systemic Illness, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 357 (2007).
Doug was quoted in Case Result Likely Would Differ Today, Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 28, 2007, at 11A.
October 2007
Doug completed an article, Conceptualizing and Characterizing Accuracy in Assessments of Competence to Stand Trial, and submitted it to the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He presented Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events at the Correctional Service of Canada, High-Risk Offenders Roundtable, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Two of Doug's articles were cited:
- A Decision Analysis Approach to Neuroleptic Dosing: Insights from a Mathematical Model, 58 J. Clinical Psychiatry 66 (1997), in Vita Dolzan et al., Polymorphisms in Dopamine Receptor DRD1 and DRD2 Genes and Psychopathological and Extrapyramidal Symptoms in Patients on Long-term Antipsychotic Treatment, 144B Am. J. Med. Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics 809 (Sept. 5, 2007).
- Three-Way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Shuangge Ma & Jian Huang, Combining Multiple Markers for Classification Using ROC, 63 Biometrics 751 (2007); and Thomas C. W. Landgrebe & Robert P. W. Duin, 28 Pattern Recognition Letters 1747 (Oct.1, 2007).
Summer 2007
Douglas published:
Douglas submitted two manuscripts for publication:
- Analyzing the Performance of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Response to Vrieze and Grove (2007), Law and Human Behavior.
- Connecting Which Dots? Problems in Detecting Uncommon Events, Correctional Service of Canada, High-Risk Offenders Roundtable.
Douglas presented Roll Out the Lawsuits: Could Tort Lawyers Have a Barrel of Fun with the Genetics of Alcoholism? (with Betsy Malloy) as part of the 11th Annual UC Faculty Summer Scholarship Series.
He gave seven guest lectures during the Forensic Psychology course at Xavier University:
- The Mental Health Professional as Expert Witness
- Understanding and Assessing "Legal Insanity"
- Civil Commitment: When Courts Allow Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization
- Implications of Atkins v. Virginia: A Psychiatric Can of Worms?
- Risk Assessment
- Right to Refuse Treatment and Guardianship
- Psychological Damages in Tort Litigation
He also gave a talk on The Psychiatrist's Perspective on Alcohol Use Disorders to the Cincinnati Lawyer's Club.
Several of Douglas's articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consult. Clin. Psych. 783 (1994), in Susanne Bengtson & Niklas Langstrom, Unguided Clinical and Actuarial Assessment of Re-offending Risk: A Direct Comparison with Sex Offenders in Denmark, 19 Sex. Abuse - J. Res. Tr. 135 (2007); and Frank Urbaniok et al., The Prediction of Criminal Recidivism - the Implication of Sampling in Prognostic Models, 257 Eur. Arch. Psych. Clin. Neuroscience 129 (2007).
- Intervals for Posttest Probabilities: a Comparison of 5 Methods, 21 Med. Decis. Making 498 (2001) (with James O. Berger); and Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sex. Abuse J. Res. Tr. 41 (2006) in Calvin M. Langton et al., Reliability and Validity of the Static-2002 among Adult Sexual Offenders with Reference to Treatment Status, 34 Crim. J. Behavior 616 (2007).
- Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation: a Case Study in Countertherapeutic Jurisprudence, 24 Bull. Am. Acad. Psych. L. 27 (1996), in Michele R. Spoont et al., Does Filing a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Disability Claim Promote Mental Health Care Participation among Veterans?, 172 Mil. Med. 572 (2007).
- Three-way ROCs, 19 Med. Decis. Making 78 (1999), in Christos T. Nakas & Todd A. Alonzo, ROC Graphs for Assessing the Ability of a Diagnostic Marker to Detect Three Disease Classes with an Umbrella Ordering, 63 Biometrics 603 (2007).
- Neuropsychiatric Decision Making: the Role of Disorder Prevalence in Diagnostic Testing, 3 J. Neuropsych. Cl. 84.(1991); and ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsych Clin. N. 330 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Christopher J. Recklitis & Paola Rodriguez, Screening Childhood Cancer Survivors with the Brief Symptom Inventory-18: Classification Agreement with the Symptom Checklist-90-revised, 16 Psycho-oncology 429( 2007).
- ROC Curves, Test Accuracy, and the Description of Diagnostic Tests, 3 J. Neuropsych. Clin. N. 330 (1991) (with Eugene Somoza), in Laura Todaro et al., Alteration of Serum and Tumoral Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) Isoforms in Patients with Brain Tumors, 83 J. Neuro-oncology 135 (2007).
June 2007
Two of Douglas's articles were cited:
- Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting Clin. Psychol. 783 (1994), in Melinda D. Schlager & David J. Simourd, Validity of the Level of Service Inventory-revised (LSI-R) Among African American and Hispanic Male Offenders, 34 Crim. Just. Behav. 545 (2007); and F. Urbaniok, et al., The Predictive Quality of the Psychopathy Checklist-revised (PCL-R) for Violent and Sex Offenders in Switzerland-a Validation Study, 75 Fortschritte Der Neurologie Psychiatrie 155 (2007).
- Daubert, Cognitive Malingering, and Test Accuracy, 27 L. & Hum. Behav. 229 (2003), in Karl B. Tegland, Evidence Law and Practice (West, 5th ed., 2007 Supp.); and Michael J. Sharland & Jeffrey D. Gfeller, A Survey of Neuropsychologists' Beliefs and Practices with Respect to the Assessment of Effort, 22 Archives Clin. Neuropsychol. 213 (2007).
May 2007
Doug published:
Doug delivered introductory remarks, Significance of Research on the Human Genome, at the Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry symposium, Law, Ethics, Psychiatry, and the Human Genome Project.
Two of Doug's articles were cited:
Doug was quoted in Disturbing Writing, or First Hint of Killer-to-Be?, Cincinnati Enquirer, Apr. 22, 2007, at 1A.
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