Hot Topics in Mental Health & Law: Civil Commitment series
Friday, December 13, 2024
Webinar description
Philip Candilis, MD, DFAPA, will present the Bruce Gage Lecture in Forensic Mental Health, as part of the UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds series. This talk will trace themes of ethics, policy, and social justice through the evolution of civil commitment in the US.
Learning objectives
- Identify three policy themes in the evolution of US civil commitment law.
- Describe three ethics constructs driving civil commitment in the US.
- Recognize two persistent controversies in US civil commitment.
About the presenter
Dr. Philip Candilis trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Ethics Program, completing his forensic fellowship at UMass Medical School. On faculty at UMass for 18 years, Dr. Candilis conducted federally funded research on informed consent, staffed inpatient state hospital units, and consulted to the Massachusetts Board of Medicine and Physician Health Service. Dr. Candilis has contributed to professional ethics through organizational statements, reports, and academic papers with the American College of Physicians, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), American Psychiatric Association (APA), and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL). He has chaired the ethics committees of APA, AAPL, and GAP, and served as hospital ethicist to two hospitals. In forensic ethics, Dr. Candilis has articulated models of professionalism, feminist theory, and epistemology. He began his term as President-elect of AAPL in October.