Law and Mental Health: Diagnosing Antisocial Personality Disorder:

Law and Mental Health: Diagnosing Antisocial Personality Disorder: The Important (but Sometimes Overlooked) Roles of Persistence, Pervasiveness, & Psychopathy -Tatiana Matlasz, Ph.D.

Tatiana Matlasz, Ph.D. is currently a postdoctoral fellow in forensic psychology here at the University of New Mexico. She completed her predoctoral internship with the Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Louisiana State University where she studied under Paul Frick. Tatiana has worked in a variety of clinical and forensic settings, such as inpatient hospitals, a county jail, a federal prison, substance use
treatment facilities, private practice, and a Court Clinic. Her forensic evaluation experience began prior to graduate school. Since then, she has conducted primarily competency to stand trial, sanity, and violence risk assessments, including for defendants facing the death penalty, and has published manuscripts related to violence risk and competency assessment.
She has also worked with various mental health, judicial, and law enforcement agencies in research and policy-oriented capacities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Specify the limitations to the DSM-5 criteria for antisocial personality disorder.
2. Analyze implications of diagnosing antisocial personality disorder (i.e., how and why does this matter in practice?).
3. Specify recommendations for practitioners to consider when diagnosing antisocial personality disorder.

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