Assists mental health professionals at various levels of career development in their effective production of forensic reports. This title features full-length report samples with step-by-step guides explaining how each section of the report is done, and extensive reference lists and appendices for further information and research.
A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys
Reviewing the three versions of the MMPI, the research identifying the MMPI's effectiveness and limitations in different kinds of civil and criminal forensic assessments, and the courts' recognition and restriction of MMPI-based testimony, this book provides comprehensive guidance to both novice and experienced professionals.
The Mental Health Professional in Court: A Survival Guide is designed to help mental health professionals become more knowledgeable about the settings, assumptions, personnel, issues, and techniques involved in going to court, with the aim of demystifying the legal process and reducing anxiety about this inherently stressful experience.
A Forensic Anthropology of Intersectional Identity in the Modern Era
This volume bridges the gap between forensic and cultural anthropology in how both disciplines describe and theorize the dead, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship. As applied disciplines dealing with some of the most marginalized people in our society, forensic anthropologists have the potential to shed light on important ......
Covering a range of legal and medical issues pertaining to the interconnection between law and sexual behaviour, this book examines the nature of paraphilic behaviour and the social framework within which some of it becomes illegal. It discusses topics including sodomy, paedophilia, incest, sexual abuse, rape, exhibitionism, and prostitution.
This comprehensive text addresses sexual harassment from a forensic psychiatric perspective. It reviews the law, social science research, clinical experience, and principles of forensic evaluation relevant to the highly adversarial legal arena of sexual harassment litigation.
A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prev
In Risk Rules - A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention, experts from a range of fields provide a concise, accessible introduction to the principles of violence risk assessment and management, and explore the challenges of accurate clinical prediction across a range of populations and contexts.
Many of the chapters have been entirely rewritten by new authors to provide fresh insight into such topics as child custody; juvenile law; abuse, neglect, and permanent wardship cases; transcultural, transracial, and gay and lesbian parenting and adoption; and the reliability and suggestibility of children's statements.
Provides information on the forensic social work issues encountered on a daily basis, such as: prevention of prisoner sudden deaths; expert witness testimony in child welfare and women battering; treating dually diagnosed adolescents; jail mental health services for adults; drug courts and PTSD in inmates with substance abuse histories; and more.
