Dr. Joseph Vincent Penn M.D.
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
200 RIVER POINTE DRIVE UTMB CMC CONROE TX, 77304About
Dr. Joseph Penn practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Providence, RI. Dr. Penn evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Penn seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Univ of Tx Med Branch Galveston, Galveston Tx 1992
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Forensic Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Juvenile justice mental health services.
- Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of youth in juvenile detention and correctional facilities.
- Use of the adolescent SASSI in a juvenile correctional setting.
- Child and adolescent forensic psychiatry in Rhode Island.
- An overview of juveniles and school violence.
- Mental health care in juvenile detention facilities: a review.
- Psychotropic medications in incarcerated juveniles: overprescribed or underprescribed?
- Contracting for safety with patients: clinical practice and forensic implications.
- Juvenile Correctional Workers' Perceptions of Suicide Risk Factors and Mental Health Issues of Incarcerated Juveniles.
- Risk of reincarceration among prisoners with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorders.
- A Test of Problem Behavior and Self-Medication Theories in Incarcerated Adolescent Males.
- Addressing the challenge of community reentry among released inmates with serious mental illness.
- Recent changes in prescriptions for antipsychotics in children and adolescents.
- Pediatric psychotropic polypharmacy.
- Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the Texas juvenile correctional system.
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