Forensic Child Psychiatry: An

Elissa P. Benedek, MD Forensic child psychiatry emerged as a subspecialty in the early 1900s. Although there are still few formal training programs, a core curriculum of training and experience is described. Forensic child psychiatry emerged as a specialty as early as 1900 with the court clinics.' The needs of the court for

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