Psychological knowledge in court : PTSD, pain, and TBI /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Kane, Andrew W., Nicholson, Keith, Ph. D., Young, Gerald, 1947-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Springer, 2006.
Subjects:	Forensic Psychiatry. Brain Injuries. Expert Testimony. Pain. Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic. Forensic psychology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Sect. I. Introduction. 1. Introduction to psychological knowledge in court: PTSD, pain, and TBI / Gerald Young, Andrew W. Kane, & Keith Nicholson
2. Psychology, causality, and court / Andrew W. Kane
Sect. II. PTSD/Distress. 3. Understanding PTSD: implications for court / Gerald Young & Rachel Yehuda
4. Posttraumatic disorders following injury: assessment and other methodological considerations / Meaghan L. O'Donnell et al.
5. Predicting who will develop posttraumatic stress disorder / Daniel S. Weiss & Emily J. Ozer
6. Assessment of psychological distress and disability after sexual assault in adults / Melissa A. Polusny & Paul A. Arbisi
Sect. III. Chronic pain. 7. Pain in the 21st century: the neuromatrix and beyond / Ronald Melzach & Joel Katz
8. Influence of personality characteristics of pain patients: implications for causality in pain / Robert J. Gatchel & Nancy Kishino
9. Effect of cognition on pain experience and pain behavior: diathesis - stress and the causal conundrum / Tamar Pincus
10. Chronic pain and affect as a nonlinear dynamical system / Gerald Young & C. Richard Chapman
11. Objective and subjective measurement of pain: current approaches for forensic applications / Jeffrey J. Sherman & Richard Ohrbach
Sect. IV. PTSD and pain. 12. Posttraumatic stress disorder and whiplash after motor vehicle accidents / Brian M. Freidenberg et al.
13. PTSD and chronic pain: cognitive-behavioral perspectives and practical implications / Gordon J.G. Asmundson & Steven Taylor
14. Comorbid chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder across the lifespan: a review of theoretical models / John D. Otis, Donna B. Pincus & Terence M. Keane
Sect. V. Traumatic brain injury. 15. Mild traumatic brain injury: definitions / Jeffrey T. Barth, Ronald Ruff, & Patricia Espe-Pfeifer
16. Mild traumatic brain injury: neuropsychological causality modelling / Rodney D. Vanderploeg, Heather G. Belanger & Glenn Curtiss
17. Mild Traumatic brain injury: causality considerations from a neuroimaging and neuropathology perspective / Erin D. Bigler
18. Confounding effects of pain, psychoemotional problems or psychiatric disorder, premorbid ability structure, and motivational or other factors on neuropsychological test performance / Keith Nicholson & Michael F. Martelli
19. Neuropsychological assessment of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury / Brigitte N. Patry & Catherine A. Mateer
Sect. VI. Conclusions. 20. Conclusions on psychological knowledge in court: PTSD, pain, and TBI / Gerald Young, Keith Nicholson & Andrew W. Kane.