Dale McNiel, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

in clinical psychology with a minor in neuropsychology at the University of Arizona, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. He is Board Certified in both Clinical Neuropsychology and Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions of Clinical Psychology and Psychology and Law), and is a former President of the Section on Clinical Emergencies and Crises in the APA’s Division of Clinical Psychology. His research interests focus primarily on violence and mental disorder, including issues such as assessment and management of risk of violence, mental health courts, family violence and victims of violence, and self-directed violence.

• Estimating Annual Numbers of Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations across the United States.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2021 Morris NP, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• The Evolving Medicolegal Precedent for Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in U.S. Jails and Prisons.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2021 Toyoshima T, McNiel DE, Schonfeld A, Binder R
• Homicide-Suicide in the United States: Moving Toward an Empirically Derived Typology.
  The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2021 Jordan JT, McNiel DE
• Prospective study of mental health court and life satisfaction.
  International journal of law and psychiatry 2020 Nijdam-Jones A, McNiel DE
• Laws and Ethics Related to Emotional Support Animals.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2020 Carroll JD, Mohlenhoff BS, Kersten CM, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Correlates of gun violence by criminal justice-involved adolescents.
  Law and human behavior 2020 Gonzales L, McNiel DE
• Effectiveness of Police Crisis Intervention Training Programs.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2019 Rogers MS, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Correlates of gun violence by criminal justice-involved adolescents.
  Law and human behavior 2019 Gonzales L, McNiel DE
• Characteristics of persons who die on their first suicide attempt: results from the National Violent Death Reporting System.
  Psychological medicine 2019 Jordan JT, McNiel DE
• A Systematic Approach to the Detection of False PTSD.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2019 Matto M, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Perceived Coercion During Admission Into Psychiatric Hospitalization Increases Risk of Suicide Attempts After Discharge.
  Suicide & life-threatening behavior 2019 Jordan JT, McNiel DE
• A Review of Statutes and the Role of the Forensic Psychiatrist in Cyberstalking Involving Youth.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2019 Elizondo P, McNiel DE, Binder R
• Characteristics of a suicide attempt predict who makes another attempt after hospital discharge: A decision-tree investigation.
  Psychiatry research 2018 Jordan JT, McNiel DE
• Current Regulation of Mobile Mental Health Applications.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2018 Armontrout JA, Torous J, Cohen M, McNiel DE, Binder R
• Can reduced homelessness help explain public safety benefits of mental health court?
  Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 2018 Gonzales L, McNiel DE
• Controversies Concerning the Canadian Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2017 Lacroix R, O'Shaughnessy R, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Adolescents and Social Media: Privacy, Brain Development, and the Law.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2016 Costello CR, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Sex Offenders in the Digital Age.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2016 Chan EJ, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Minors and Sexting: Legal Implications.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2016 Lorang MR, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Mental Health and Immigrant Detainees in the United States: Competency and Self-Representation.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2015 Korngold C, Ochoa K, Inlender T, McNiel D, Binder R
• Prospective study of violence risk reduction by a mental health court.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2015 McNiel DE, Sadeh N, Delucchi KL, Binder RL
• Posttraumatic stress disorder increases risk for criminal recidivism among justice-involved persons with mental disorders
  Criminal Justice and Behavior 2015 Sadeh N, McNiel DE
• Scientist-practitioner training at the internship and postdoctoral level: reflections over three decades
  Training and Education in Professional Psychology 2015 Muñoz RF, Sorensen JL, Areán PA, Lieberman A. Fields L, Gruber VA, Hall SH, Kramer, J, Leykin,Y, McBurnett K, McQuaid JR., Pfiffner LJ, Prochaska JJ, Scheidt SD, Shumway M, Tsoh JY, van Horn P, Sosa H…
• Functions of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents and young adults with Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms.
  Psychiatry research 2014 Sadeh N, Londahl-Shaller EA, Piatigorsky A, Fordwood S, Stuart BK, McNiel DE, Klonsky ED, Ozer EM, Yaeger AM
• Recent victimization increases risk for violence in justice-involved persons with mental illness.
  Law and human behavior 2013 Sadeh N, Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Facets of anger, childhood sexual victimization, and gender as predictors of suicide attempts by psychiatric patients after hospital discharge.
  Journal of abnormal psychology 2013 Sadeh N, McNiel DE
• Leverage, the treatment relationship, and treatment participation.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2013 McNiel DE, Gormley B, Binder RL
• Reply: To PMID 22960918.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2013 Burton PR, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Transgendered and incarcerated: a review of the literature, current policies and laws, and ethics.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2013 Glezer A, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• The relationship between level of training and accuracy of violence risk assessment.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2012 Teo AR, Holley SR, Leary M, McNiel DE
• Mental health in violent crime victims: Does sexual orientation matter?
  Law and human behavior 2012 Cramer RJ, McNiel DE, Holley SR, Shumway M, Boccellari A
• A method for evaluating competency in assessment and management of suicide risk.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2012 Hung EK, Binder RL, Fordwood SR, Hall SE, Cramer RJ, McNiel DE
• Coping with a patient's suicide: a curriculum for psychiatry residency training programs.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2012 Lerner U, Brooks K, McNiel DE, Cramer RJ, Haller E
• Covert medication in psychiatric emergencies: is it ever ethically permissible?
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2012 Hung EK, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Firesetting, arson, pyromania, and the forensic mental health expert.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2012 Burton PR, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• PTSD as a criminal defense: a review of case law.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2012 Berger O, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Postpartum psychosis and the courts.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2012 Nau ML, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• "I did what?" Zolpidem and the courts.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2011 Daley C, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• An approach to evaluating competence in assessing and managing violence risk.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2011 McNiel DE, Hung EK, Cramer RJ, Hall SE, Binder RL
• Stakeholder views of a mental health court.
  International journal of law and psychiatry 2010 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Adult attachment orientations, depressive symptoms, anger, and self-directed aggression by psychiatric patients
  Cognitive Research and Therapy 2010 Gormley B, McNiel DE
• Do protection orders protect?
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2010 Benitez CT, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• The role of mental health professionals in political asylum processing.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2010 Meffert SM, Musalo K, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Effects of training on suicide risk assessment.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2008 McNiel DE, Fordwood SR, Weaver CM, Chamberlain JR, Hall SE, Binder RL
• Impact of clinical training on violence risk assessment.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2008 McNiel DE, Chamberlain JR, Weaver CM, Hall SE, Fordwood SR, Binder RL
• Some issues in psychiatry, psychology and the law
  Hastings Law Journal 2008 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Effectiveness of a mental health court in reducing criminal recidivism and violence.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2007 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Base rates of firearm possession by hospitalized psychiatric patients.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2007 McNiel DE, Weaver CM, Hall SE
• "He said--she said": the role of the forensic evaluator in determining credibility of plaintiffs who allege sexual exploitation and boundary violations.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2007 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Use of the anxiety control questionnaire in psychiatric inpatients.
  Depression and anxiety 2006 Lang AJ, McNiel DE
• Incarceration associated with homelessness, mental disorder, and co-occurring substance abuse.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2005 McNiel DE, Binder RL, Robinson JC
• Psychiatric emergency service use and homelessness, mental disorder, and violence.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2005 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Use of leverage to improve adherence to psychiatric treatment in the community.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2005 Monahan J, Redlich AD, Swanson J, Robbins PC, Appelbaum PS, Petrila J, Steadman HJ, Swartz M, Angell B, McNiel DE
• Factitious physical disorders, litigation, and mortality.
  Psychosomatics 2004 Eisendrath SJ, McNiel DE
• Utility of decision support tools for assessing acute risk of violence.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2003 McNiel DE, Gregory AL, Lam JN, Binder RL, Sullivan GR
• The relationship between aggressive attributional style and violence by psychiatric patients.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2003 McNiel DE, Eisner JP, Binder RL
• Stalking, threatening, and harassing behavior by psychiatric patients toward clinicians.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2002 Sandberg DA, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Relevance of interrater agreement to violence risk assessment.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2000 McNiel DE, Lam JN, Binder RL
• The relationship between command hallucinations and violence.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2000 McNiel DE, Eisner JP, Binder RL
• The relationship between patients' gender and violence leading to staff injuries.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2000 Lam JN, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Emergency psychiatry: contemporary practices in managing acutely violent patients in 20 psychiatric emergency rooms.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1999 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Violence risk communication: Implications for research, policy, and practice
  Health, Risk, and Society 1999 Heilbrun K, Dvoskin J, Hart S, McNiel DE
• The relationship between confidence and accuracy in clinical assessment of psychiatric patients' potential for violence.
  Law and human behavior 1998 McNiel DE, Sandberg DA, Binder RL
• Characteristics of psychiatric inpatients who stalk, threaten, or harass hospital staff after discharge.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1998 Sandberg DA, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Management of threats of violence under California's duty-to-protect statute.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1998 McNiel DE, Binder RL, Fulton FM
• A naturalistic study of clinical use of risperidone.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1998 Binder RL, McNiel DE, Sandberg DA
• Utility of the initial therapeutic alliance in evaluating psychiatric patients' risk of violence.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1997 Beauford JE, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• The impact of hospitalization on clinical assessments of suicide risk.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1997 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Correlates of violence in psychotic patients
  Psychiatric Annals 1997 McNiel DE
• Application of the Tarasoff ruling and its effect on the victim and the therapeutic relationship.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1996 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Impact of a smoking ban on a locked psychiatric unit.
  The Journal of clinical psychiatry 1996 Haller E, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Is adaptive coping possible for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse?
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1996 Binder RL, McNiel DE, Goldstone RL
• Correlates of accuracy in the assessment of psychiatric inpatients' risk of violence.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1995 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• The relationship between acute psychiatric symptoms, diagnosis, and short-term risk of violence.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1994 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Patterns of recall of childhood sexual abuse as described by adult survivors.
  The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1994 Binder RL, McNiel DE, Goldstone RL
• Screening for risk of inpatient violence: validation of an actuarial tool
  Law and Human Behavior 1994 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Staff gender and risk of assault on doctors and nurses.
  The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1994 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Violence toward family caregivers by mentally ill relatives.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1993 Straznickas KA, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Family attitudes that predict home placement of hospitalized psychiatric patients.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1992 McNiel DE, Rosales IB, Binder RL
• The role of violence in decisions about hospitalization from the psychiatric emergency room.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1992 McNiel DE, Myers RS, Zeiner HK, Wolfe HL, Hatcher C
• Clinical assessment of the risk of violence among psychiatric inpatients.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1991 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• The course of psychological symptoms after resolution of lawsuits.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1991 Binder RL, Trimble MR, McNiel DE
• Characteristics of persons referred by police to the psychiatric emergency room.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1991 McNiel DE, Hatcher C, Zeiner H, Wolfe HL, Myers RS
• Involuntary patients' right to refuse medication: impact of the Riese decision on a California inpatient unit.
  The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1991 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Is money a cure? Follow-up of litigants in England.
  The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1991 Binder RL, Trimble MR, McNiel DE
• Violence by geriatric patients who need psychiatric hospitalization.
  The Journal of clinical psychiatry 1990 Kalunian DA, Binder RL, McNiel DE
• The relationship between admission symptoms and hospital assaults.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1990 Lowenstein M, Binder RL, McNiel DE
• The relationship of gender to violent behavior in acutely disturbed psychiatric patients.
  The Journal of clinical psychiatry 1990 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Alcoholism and the family in Peru: the impact of an alcoholic on teenagers' perceptions of the family
  American Journal of Family Therapy 1990 Kadis LB, Villa MM, McNiel DE, McClendon R
• Violent behavior and length of psychiatric hospitalization.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1989 Greenfield TK, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Relationship between preadmission threats and later violent behavior by acute psychiatric inpatients.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1989 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Factor structure of a brief symptom checklist for acute psychiatric inpatients.
  Journal of clinical psychology 1989 McNiel DE, Greenfield TK, Attkisson CC, Binder RL
• Violence in geriatric patients with dementia.
  The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1989 Haller E, Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Predictors of violence in civilly committed acute psychiatric patients.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1988 McNiel DE, Binder RL, Greenfield TK
• Effects of diagnosis and context on dangerousness.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1988 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Family survivors of suicide and accidental death: consequences for widows.
  Suicide & life-threatening behavior 1988 McNiel DE, Hatcher C, Reubin R
• Therapeutic factors in two forms of inpatient group psychotherapy: music therapy and verbal therapy
  Group: Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Association 1988 Goldberg FG, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Tardive dyskinesia and neuroleptic-induced parkinsonism in Japan.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1987 Binder RL, Kazamatsuri H, Nishimura T, McNiel DE
• The response of others to face-to-face interaction with depressed patients.
  Journal of abnormal psychology 1987 McNiel DE, Arkowitz HS, Pritchard BE
• Smoking and tardive dyskinesia.
  Biological psychiatry 1987 Binder RL, Kazamatsuri H, Nishimura T, McNiel DE
• Predictive validity of judgments of dangerousness in emergency civil commitment.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1987 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Evaluation of a school-based sexual abuse prevention program: cognitive and emotional effects.
  Child abuse & neglect 1987 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Patients who bring weapons to the psychiatric emergency room
  Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 1987 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Effects of a weapon screening procedure in a psychiatric emergency room.
  Hospital & community psychiatry 1986 McCulloch LE, McNiel DE, Binder RL, Hatcher C
• Violence, civil commitment, and hospitalization.
  The Journal of nervous and mental disease 1986 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Victims and families of violent psychiatric patients
  Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1986 Binder RL, McNiel DE
• Attitude change concerning right to refuse treatment: the impact of experience.
  The American journal of psychiatry 1985 Binder RL, McNiel DE, Fishman PS
• Teaching psychiatric residents about referring inpatients for psychological testing
  Journal of Psychiatric Education 1985 McNiel DE, Binder RL
• Can reduced homelessness help explain public safety benefits of mental health court?
  Psychology, Public Policy, and Law Gonzales L, McNiel D