Forensic mental health assessments are evaluations conducted by individuals from different disciplines on a variety of questions in civil, criminal, and family law. A growing number of mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers, are being called upon to assess everything from an individual's competence to stand trial to the risk or threat of future violence, and asked to weigh in on cases ranging from murder and assault to malpractice and child custody." General principles have emerged to guide professionals conducting forensic mental health assessment. Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook illustrates those principles using relevant, real-world case material. Built around actual case reports from expert forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, the volume probes a broad range of legal questions through the detailed examination of more than 40 cases. Topics include Miranda rights waiver, competence to act as one's own attorney, competence to stand trial, juvenile commitment, sanity at the time of the offense, child custody, termination of parental rights, guardianship, and malpractice. This is the first casebook focusing specifically on forensic assessment. It contains cases from a broad range of civil, criminal, and family legal questions, described in case reports contributed by expert forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. It will be useful for anyone involved in assessments for the courts and attorneys, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and attorneys.
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Kirk Heilbrun is at MCP Hahnemann University. Geoffrey Marczyk is at Yale University. David DeMatteo is at Medical College of Virginia.
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The field of forensic mental health assessment has grown and developed significantly during the past 2 decades. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
forensic mental health assessment, ciated limits, forensic clinician, capital sentencing evaluations, relevant forensic issues, assessing causal connection, secondary financial gain, assessing response style, anticipated forensic service, allegation period, juvenile competence, nomothetic evidence, established empirical base, psycholegal abilities, reverse waiver, previous evaluation report, forensic capacities, ultimate legal question, justice mental health standards, active risk factors, demonstrated empirical support, ultimate legal issue, specialty guidelines, juvenile commitment, idiographic information Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Ethics Code, New Jersey, John Doe, Bill Black, Social Summary, Dillard County, Sant Mat, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, African American, Joan Smith, Springfield County, Latency Howard, Marie Doe, American Board of Professional Psychology, State Hospital, Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards, Detention Center, Evaluation Form, Brief Symptom Inventory, Federal Rules of Evidence, Maria Jamison, Millon Clinical Multiaxial, North Carolina New!
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forensic mental health assessment, ciated limits, forensic clinician, capital sentencing evaluations, relevant forensic issues, assessing causal connection, secondary financial gain, assessing response style, anticipated forensic service, allegation period, juvenile competence, nomothetic evidence, established empirical base, psycholegal abilities, reverse waiver, previous evaluation report, forensic capacities, ultimate legal question, justice mental health standards, active risk factors, demonstrated empirical support, ultimate legal issue, specialty guidelines, juvenile commitment, idiographic information Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Ethics Code, New Jersey, John Doe, Bill Black, Social Summary, Dillard County, Sant Mat, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, African American, Joan Smith, Springfield County, Latency Howard, Marie Doe, American Board of Professional Psychology, State Hospital, Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards, Detention Center, Evaluation Form, Brief Symptom Inventory, Federal Rules of Evidence, Maria Jamison, Millon Clinical Multiaxial, North Carolina New!
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- The Principles of Medical Ethics: With Annotations Especially Applicable to Psychiatry, 2001 Edition by American Psychiatric Association on 8 pages
- Federal Rules of Evidence: With advisory committee notes and legislative history by United States on page 27, Back Matter, and Index
- The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives by J. Reid Meloy in Front Matter, and page 2
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Primary Care Version (Dsm-IV-PC) (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) by American Psychiatric Association on page 92
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition: Primary Care Version by American Psychiatric Association on page 92
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- Clinician's Guide to Child Custody Evaluations by Marc J. Ackerman Ph.D. in Back Matter
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