Psychological evaluations for the courts : a handbook for mental health professionals and lawyers
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Psychological evaluations for the courts : a handbook for mental health professionals and lawyers
Guilford Press, c2007
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is the definitive reference and text for both mental health and legal professionals. The authors offer a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the legal and clinical contexts of forensic assessment, along with best-practice guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings. Presented are findings, instruments, and procedures related to criminal and civil competencies, civil commitment, sentencing, personal injury claims, antidiscrimination laws, child custody, juvenile justice, and more.
Table of Contents
I. General Considerations
1. Law and the Mental Health Professions: An Uneasy Alliance
2. An Overview of the Legal System: Sources of Law, the Court System, and the Adjudicative Process
3. The Nature and Method of Forensic Assessment
4. Constitutional, Common-Law, and Ethical Contours of the Evaluation Process: The Mental Health Professional as Double Agent
5. Managing Public and Private Forensic Services
II. The Criminal Process
6. Competency to Stand Trial
7. Other Competencies in the Criminal Process
8. Mental State at the Time of the Offense
9. Sentencing
III. Noncriminal Adjudication
10. Civil Commitment
11. Civil Competencies
12. Compensating Mental Injury: Workers' Compensation and Torts
13. Federal Antidiscrimination and Entitlement Laws
IV. Children and Families
14. Juvenile Delinquency
15. Child Abuse and Neglect
16. Child Custody in Divorce
17. Education and Habilitation
V. Communicating with the Courts
18. Consultation, Report Writing, and Expert Testimony
19. Sample Reports
20. Glossary
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