Psych CASC / OSCE · Forensic psychiatry — stalking and harassment
Explain stalking risk and safety planning to a victim's support person — CASC communication station
MRCPsych/FRANZCP-style CASC: explain multi-domain stalking risk, parallel safety and treatment tracks, and residual uncertainty without graphic detail or victim-blaming.
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Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes active time after reading. You are the psychiatry registrar supporting the community/forensic interface. The examiner plays the sibling of a woman subjected to post-separation stalking. [2]
Candidate instructions. Explain in plain non-sensational language: what stalking means; that harm includes fear and life disruption not only assault; why ex-intimate context matters for violence concern; why a private "clear the air" meeting is usually unsafe; that treatment of the person who stalks and legal safety steps run in parallel; residual uncertainty. No graphic detail. No victim-blaming. Check understanding.[1][3][5]
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- [1]Pathé M, Mullen PE The impact of stalkers on their victims Br J Psychiatry, 1997.PMID 9068768
- [2]Mullen PE, Mackenzie R, Ogloff JR, et al. Assessing and managing the risks in the stalking situation J Am Acad Psychiatry Law, 2006.PMID 17185471
- [3]McEwan TE, Mullen PE, MacKenzie RD, et al. Violence in stalking situations Psychol Med, 2009.PMID 19215627
- [4]Mullen PE, Pathé M, Purcell R, et al. Study of stalkers Am J Psychiatry, 1999.PMID 10450267
- [5]Large MM, Ryan CJ, Nielssen OB Helpful and unhelpful risk assessment practices Psychiatr Serv, 2010.PMID 20439381