This is a nuts-and-bolts guide for the psychologist who may be called upon to testify as an expert witness. It discusses how to prepare psychological reports, depositions, and technical reports; what to expect when serving as a witness; and how to behave in various situations and avoid being used by attorneys and embarrassed in court. It describes the different kinds of actions that may require expert testimony - competency and sanity hearings, domestic cases, personal injury and wrongful death litigation, and questions of criminal intent and disability. The book also includes material on legal procedures, the background and operation of the court systems, and actual testimony for a wide variety of cases.
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A nuts-and-bolts guide for the psychologist who may be called upon to testify as an expert witness. Discusses how to prepare psychological reports, depositions, and technical reports; what to expect when serving as a witness; and how to behave in various situations and avoid being used by attorneys and embarrassed in court. Describes the different kinds of actions that may require expert testimony--competency and sanity hearings, domestic cases, personal injury and wrongful death litigation, and questions of criminal intent and disability. Includes material on legal procedures, the background and operation of the court systems, and actual testimony for a wide variety of cases.
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The leading resource on forensic practice
The Psychologist as Expert Witness, Second Edition introduces practitioners to the law and the role of psychologists in the courtroom, covering all facets of forensic practice–one of the most rapidly growing areas of professional specialization. This comprehensive primer prepares the psychologist to function credibly as an expert witness, identifying the current and emerging areas of application of psychology to the law.
Revealing psychology’s enormous potential to promote human welfare through the American system of jurisprudence, former American Psychological Association president Theodore Blau:
- Outlines the ways psychology has come into contact with the court via the areas of neuropsychology, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, mental disability, psychological profiles, various marital and family issues, and others
- Offers a wide range of situations in which psychologists have appeared as expert witnesses
- Includes step-by-step instructions on examining competency to stand trial and making custody recommendations
- Examines cases where psychologists have done well–and not so well–in court
- Discusses malingering, deceit, and exaggeration
- Presents guidelines for testifying in marital, civil, and criminal disputes
- Emphasizes standards for practice and practical training in providing testimony to the courts
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Dr. Blau has successfully put together much of what a beginning forensic psychologist, or a clinical psychologist drawn serendipitously into the legal arena should know.
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In early English law, experts were not really utilized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
malingering simulators, undifferentiated psychosis, insanity pleading, pretrial psychiatric examination, competency screening test, malingered head injury, retaining attorney, successful police officers, cue book, fake bad scale, best psychological interests, child custody evaluations, capital sentencing proceeding, custodial issues, simulated amnesia, systolic blood pressure deception test, aptitude areas, future dangerousness, retaining counsel, anxiety structure, psychological testimony, defense psychologists, adversary issues, psychological probability, expert scientific testimony Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, American Psychological Association, American Psychologist, American Psychiatric Association, Central Intake, State Police, Code Ann, Factor Deviation, Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery, M'Naghten Rule, Thematic Apperception Test, Wechsler Memory Scale, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Alice Murtrey, Digit Span, Federal Rules of Evidence, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Rules of the Road, University of California, District of Columbia, North Carolina, Percentile Verbal, Public Affairs Committee, Unacceptable Questionable Acceptable Not Applicable New!
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In early English law, experts were not really utilized. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
malingering simulators, undifferentiated psychosis, insanity pleading, pretrial psychiatric examination, competency screening test, malingered head injury, retaining attorney, successful police officers, cue book, fake bad scale, best psychological interests, child custody evaluations, capital sentencing proceeding, custodial issues, simulated amnesia, systolic blood pressure deception test, aptitude areas, future dangerousness, retaining counsel, anxiety structure, psychological testimony, defense psychologists, adversary issues, psychological probability, expert scientific testimony Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, American Psychological Association, American Psychologist, American Psychiatric Association, Central Intake, State Police, Code Ann, Factor Deviation, Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery, M'Naghten Rule, Thematic Apperception Test, Wechsler Memory Scale, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Alice Murtrey, Digit Span, Federal Rules of Evidence, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Rules of the Road, University of California, District of Columbia, North Carolina, Percentile Verbal, Public Affairs Committee, Unacceptable Questionable Acceptable Not Applicable New!
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- Federal Rules of Evidence: With advisory committee notes and legislative history by United States on 9 pages
- 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 133, and page 264
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition: Primary Care Version by American Psychiatric Association on page 264
- Washington, D.C by Gerald in Back Matter
- The U.S. Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years by R.R. Sherman on page 101
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- Ethics in Forensic Science and Medicine: Guidelines for the Forensic Expect and the Attorney by Melvin A. Shiffman on page 233
- Methamphetamine Use: Clinical and Forensic Aspects (Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology) by Sandra B. McPherson on page 174
- Psychology and Crime: An Introduction to Criminological Psychology by Clive R. Hollin in Back Matter
- The Implicit Relation of Psychology and Law: Women and Syndrome Evidence (Critical Psychology Series) by Fiona Raitt in Back Matter
- Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques by Stuart James on page 505
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