This book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in this second edition are new.
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This book is extremely thorough yet easy to use. It came highly recommended by two very respected (well published, board certified, etc)professors I worked under as part of my clincal internship. My primary duites are not as a forensic psychologist; however, I have found in the couse of my work for an Outpatient Community Mental Health center that one can never really avoid forensic / competency issues and related evaluations. I have referred to this text often in the year since I purchased it; this book has proved invaluable. Forensic issues are increasingly prevalent in todays clinical practice; even if you are not primarily interested in forensic psychology, chances are you have or will be asked to assess competency at some point; while clinically oriented professors often offer some guidance on this matter, they often lack the epxerience / expertise to thoroughly train their students on the legal aspects of such determinations. This book provides the most relevant and accurate needed to ensure prudent and high quality. My only regret is that I did not purchase this book sooner.Rob Metzger, Psy.D.
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"The first edition of this book was a classic, widely cited both for its analysis of forensic assessment instruments and for Grisso's integrative theory of forensic evaluation. With the second edition, Evaluating Competencies remains a classic. I expect that whenever a forensic psychologist of psychiatrist prepares for an advanced examination in this specialty, this book will-or should-be one of the first books reviewed."Philip H. Witt, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Dept. of Psychiatry Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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continues to integrate and expand upon what is currently at issue in the new field of forensic psychology. next time I teach forensic psych on the undergraduate level, will use much of this text
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In the 1986 first edition of Evaluating Competencies (hereinafter, EC), Chapter 1 was entitled "Problems in Assessments for Legal Competencies." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Treatment Competence Study, Supreme Court, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Child Abuse Potential Inventory, Competence Screening Test, Duke University, Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Resource Press, Village Publishing, Fitness Interview Test, West Virginia University, American Bar Association, Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Psychological Association, Bricklin Perceptual Scales, Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication, Harvard Medical School, Professional Psychology, American Psychiatric Association, Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles Browse Sample Pages:
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In the 1986 first edition of Evaluating Competencies (hereinafter, EC), Chapter 1 was entitled "Problems in Assessments for Legal Competencies." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Treatment Competence Study, Supreme Court, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Child Abuse Potential Inventory, Competence Screening Test, Duke University, Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, Resource Press, Village Publishing, Fitness Interview Test, West Virginia University, American Bar Association, Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Psychological Association, Bricklin Perceptual Scales, Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication, Harvard Medical School, Professional Psychology, American Psychiatric Association, Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles Browse Sample Pages:
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