title: Psychiatry and juvenile law.
abstract: This article discusses new developments in the field of forensic child psychiatry as they apply to hospitalization and residential treatment, child custody and divorce, juvenile delinquency, competency, and malpractice.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D004243:Divorce; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice; D012114:Residential Treatment