Faculty & Research Published Research Research Ethics Health Policy Social Psychology Facet Area of Focus - Research Craig Volden Christopher J. Ruhm Bala Mulloth Eileen Chou Benjamin Castleman Sarah Turner Edgar O. Olsen Sophie Trawalter Benjamin Converse Christine Mahoney Timothy Wilson Adam Leive James H. Wyckoff William Shobe Charles Holt Daniel W. Player Daphna Bassok Harry Harding Jay Shimshack Jeanine Braithwaite John Pepper David Leblang John Holbein Leora Friedberg Molly Lipscomb James Savage Sebastian Tello-Trillo Frederick P. Hitz Gabrielle Adams Gerald Warburg Isaac Mbiti Paul S. Martin Raymond C. Scheppach Ruth Gaare Bernheim Andrew S. Pennock Gerald Higginbotham Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi Jennifer Lawless Michele Claibourn Noah Myung Philip Potter (-) Richard Bonnie Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Ethics Essentials Of Public Health Ethics Authors: James Childress, Richard Bonnie, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, A. Melnick Learn more Published Research Health Policy Interventions Used by Virginia's Colleges to Respond to Student Mental Health Crises Authors: Richard Bonnie, John Monahan, Susan Davis, Christopher Flynn Objective: This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008–2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. Methods: Public (N=15) and private (N=25) four-year colleges and two-year community colleges (N=23) in Virginia were surveyed about academic policies governing responses to apparent mental health crises among students and how often they were invoked. Learn more Published Research Ethics Should a Personality Disorder Qualify as a Mental Disease in Insanity Adjudication? Authors: Richard Bonnie The determinative issue in applying the insanity defense is whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense. Categorical exclusion of personality disorders from the definition of mental disease is clinically and morally arbitrary because it may lead to unfair conviction of a defendant with a personality disorder who actually experienced severe, legally relevant impairments at the time of the crime. Learn more Published Research Health Policy The Virtues of Pragmatism in Drug Policy Authors: Richard Bonnie This conference addresses “obstacles to development and use of pharmacotherapies in the treatment of addiction.” I will focus on the challenges of increasing use of medical agents if they are developed. Learn more Published Research Social Psychology Howard Zonana and the Transformation of Forensic Psychiatry Authors: Richard Bonnie In recognition of Howard Zonana’s contributions, I take stock of the progress of the field of forensic psychiatry over three decades. As forensic psychiatrists, you are the voice of psychiatry in the law and the interpreter of law to your colleagues in psychiatry. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Essentials Of Public Health Ethics Authors: James Childress, Richard Bonnie, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, A. Melnick Learn more
Published Research Health Policy Interventions Used by Virginia's Colleges to Respond to Student Mental Health Crises Authors: Richard Bonnie, John Monahan, Susan Davis, Christopher Flynn Objective: This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008–2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. Methods: Public (N=15) and private (N=25) four-year colleges and two-year community colleges (N=23) in Virginia were surveyed about academic policies governing responses to apparent mental health crises among students and how often they were invoked. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Should a Personality Disorder Qualify as a Mental Disease in Insanity Adjudication? Authors: Richard Bonnie The determinative issue in applying the insanity defense is whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense. Categorical exclusion of personality disorders from the definition of mental disease is clinically and morally arbitrary because it may lead to unfair conviction of a defendant with a personality disorder who actually experienced severe, legally relevant impairments at the time of the crime. Learn more
Published Research Health Policy The Virtues of Pragmatism in Drug Policy Authors: Richard Bonnie This conference addresses “obstacles to development and use of pharmacotherapies in the treatment of addiction.” I will focus on the challenges of increasing use of medical agents if they are developed. Learn more
Published Research Social Psychology Howard Zonana and the Transformation of Forensic Psychiatry Authors: Richard Bonnie In recognition of Howard Zonana’s contributions, I take stock of the progress of the field of forensic psychiatry over three decades. As forensic psychiatrists, you are the voice of psychiatry in the law and the interpreter of law to your colleagues in psychiatry. Learn more