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Forensic mental health assessment : a casebook

Author: Kirk Heilbrun; Geoffrey R Marczyk; David DeMatteo
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Case Reports
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kirk Heilbrun; Geoffrey R Marczyk; David DeMatteo
ISBN: 0195145682 9780195145687
OCLC Number: 47996279
Description: xxii, 525 p. ; 26 cm.
Responsibility: Kirk Heilbrun, Geoffrey R. Marczyk, David DeMatteo [editors].
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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