56th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL)

56th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) is organized by American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) and will be held from Oct 30 - Nov 02, 2025 at Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

2025 Theme: “Transparency: Embracing What We Know And Don’t Know”

Description:
The AAPL Annual Meeting is the largest gathering with over 700 Forensic Psychiatrists, Psychiatrists, Residents, Fellows, Students, and others coming together from around the world for education, networking, and discussions.  The Annual Meeting represents the seminal educational offering from the Academy in the advancement of Forensic Psychiatry practice.

Goals:
To inform attendees about current major issues in forensic psychiatry and afford them opportunities to refresh skills in the fundamentals of the discipline, engage in discussion with peers on the standards governing the profession, and update their present knowledge.

Purpose:
Through the education process, the Academy desires to:

• promote the exchange of ideas and experiences that enrich the field of psychiatry and the law,
• provide practical knowledge for members and others with an interest in this area,
• foster the development of future psychiatrists in this field, and
• encourage research.

Content Areas:
Each educational offering of the Academy shall have as content areas subjects that improve skills in at least one of the following:

• Practice: including treatment of forensic patients and forensic examinations in the criminal and civil context, development of service delivery and risk management strategies, and enhancement of consultative abilities at the interface of psychiatry and the law;
• Teaching: including developing new and improving existing methods of forensic training of psychiatrists; and
• Research: including the development and application of scientific data in areas that form the basis for practice of the discipline.

The scope of the Academy’s educational activities includes Forensic Psychiatric aspects of civil, criminal, and correctional issues, and other related topics.