This article canvasses states’ legal prohibitions and challenges to them and considers consequences for clinicians and patients.

Advice for enrolling patients in clinical trials.

The duty of forensic psychiatrists is to serve as objective experts to courts, but special circumstances in juvenile forensic evaluations and expectations about the patient-physician relationship may encourage confusion between the roles of forensic evaluator and treating psychiatrist.

Using children as research subjects is only ethical in very specific situations where the risk to the child is minimal.