Forensic psychiatry : a lawyer’s guide – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128028520,9780128028865,0128028521,0128028866
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- ISBN-10 : 0128028521
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128028520
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Lawyers frequently encounter clients and/or cases of bizarre behavior, mental illness, substance abuse, psychopathy, sexual offenses, learning disorders, birth defects, and other behavioral and emotional issues. Often they are ill-prepared to understand the nature of the psychiatric report, how the psychiatric assessment was structured, and how to best utilize and challenge these reports in court.Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer’s Guide provides legal professionals the tools to identify mentally ill clients and help them navigate through the psychiatric information and language in reports and testimony. Topics include why a forensic psychiatrist is necessary, applications of psychiatry to law, various psychiatric disorders, and utilizing the expert witness.
- A user-friendly roadmap to psychiatry for the non-psychiatrist―covers why you need a forensic psychiatrist and the applications of psychiatry to law
- Provides coverage of the mental status examination, common psychiatric diagnoses, treatable disorders versus brain damage, medical problems masquerading as mental illness, and much more
- Includes a full glossary of psychiatric terms as an additional easy reference guide
Table of contents:
Part I: Introduction to the handbook
1:Introduction to the handbook
Part II: Clinical forensic psychiatry
2:Clinical and social aspects of crime
3:Mental disorders in forensic psychiatry
4:Assessment in forensic psychiatry
5:Risk assessment
6:Treatment
7:Risk management
8:Forensic psychiatric services
Part III: The ethics of forensic psychiatry
9:Ethical decision making
10:Professional duties and personal integrity
11:Conflicting ethical values
12:Clinical matters raising ethical issues
Part IV: Law relevant to psychiatry
13:The interface between psychiatry and law
14:Legal systems
15:Criminal law
16:Mental health and mental capacity law
17:Civil law
Part V: Psychiatry within the legal system
18:The criminal justice system
19:Legal tests relevant to psychiatry
20:The psychiatrist in court
21:Applied ethics and testimony
22:Providing reports
23:Giving evidence
Part VI: Appendices
A:Appendices
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