Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 2Ed.
History and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry Legal regulation of psychiatric practice Forensic evaluation and treatment in the criminal justice system Civil law Family law and domestic relations Correctional psychiatry Special clinical issues in forensic psychiatry Basic issues in law Landmark cases...
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- List of contributors
- PART 1: HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
- 1. A conceptual framework for forensic psychiatry
- 2. Defining forensic psychiatry: roles and responsibilities
- 3. History of forensic psychiatry
- 4. Forensic psychiatric report writing
- 5. Guidelines for courtroom testimony
- 6. Practical issues in forensic psychiatric practice
- 7. Education and training in forensic psychiatry
- 8. Ethical guidelines
- 9. Liability of the forensic psychiatrist
- 10. The death penalty
- 11. Competence assessments
- 12. Psychological autopsy
- PART 2: LEGAL REGULATION OF PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE
- 13. Informed consent and competency
- 14. Hospitalization: voluntary and involuntary
- 15. Involuntary civil commitment to outpatient treatment
- 16. The right to treatment
- 17. Treatment refusal in psychiatric practice
- 18. Confidentiality and testimonial privilege
- 19. The duty to protect
- 20. Treatment boundaries in psychiatric practice
- 21. Sexual misconduct in the therapist-patient relationship
- 22. The law and physician illness
- PART 3: FORENSIC EVALUATION AND TREATMENT IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
- 23. Introduction
- 24. Criminal competence
- 25. Criminal responsibility
- 26. Novel mental disorders
- 27. Post-conviction dispositional evaluations
- PART 4: CIVIL LAW
- 28. Specific issues in psychiatric malpractice
- 29. Psychiatric disability determinations and personal injury litigation
- 30. Americans with Disabilities Act evaluations
- 31. Sexual harassment
- 32. Trauma-induced psychiatric disorders and civil law
- 33. Neuropsychiatric assessments in toxic exposure litigation
- 34. Civil competencies
- 35. Death, dying, and the law
- PART 5: FAMILY LAW AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS.
- 36. Role of the psychiatric evaluator in child custody disputes
- 37. Termination of parental rights and adoption
- 38. Childhood attachment, foster care and placement
- 39. Forensic evaluation of physically and sexually abused children
- 40. Juvenile delinquency
- 41. Posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents: clinical and legal issues
- 42. Forensic aspects of suicide and homicide in children and adolescents
- 43. The child as a witness
- 44. Violent adolescent offenders
- 45. Adolescent sexual offenders
- 46. Neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry
- PART 6: CORRECTIONAL PSYCHIATRY
- 47. The history of correctional psychiatry
- 48. Standards for the delivery of mental health services in a correctional setting
- 49. The structure of correctional mental health services
- 50. Administrative and staffing problems for psychiatric services in correctional and forensic settings
- 51. Issues in the prevention and detection of suicide potential in correctional facilities
- 52. The psychosocial basis of prison riots
- 53. The right to refuse treatment in a criminal law setting
- 54. Psychiatric ethics in the correctional setting
- PART 7: SPECIAL CLINICAL ISSUES IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
- 55. Malingering
- 56. Antisocial personality, psychopathy and forensic psychiatry
- 57. Dangerousness
- 58. Violence: causes and non-psychopharmacological treatment
- 59. Pharmacological treatment of violent behaviors
- 60. Violence and epilepsy: an approach to expert testimony
- 61. Brain disease: forensic neuropsychiatric issues
- 62. Forensic neuropsychology
- 63. Psychological and psychiatric measures in forensic practice
- 64. Culture and ethnicity
- 65. Hypnosis and dissociation
- 66. Amnesia, amytal interviews and polygraphy
- 67. Geriatric psychiatry and the law
- 68. Terrorism and forensic psychiatry.
- 69. Torture and brainwashing
- 70. Substance abuse and addiction
- 71. Psychopharmacological treatment of sex offenders
- 72. Prosecution of assaultive patients
- 73. Treatment of sex offenders
- 74. Sexually violent predator laws
- 75. Brain imaging
- 76. Stalking
- 77. Head trauma: a practical approach to the evaluation of symptom exaggeration
- 78. Psychiatric abuse in North America
- 79. Actuarial methods for violence and sex-offender risk assessments
- 80. ERISA, healthcare and the courts
- PART 8: BASIC ISSUES IN LAW
- 81. The philosophy of law and the foundations (sources) of law
- 82. The court system and the legislative process
- 83. A model of constitutional adjudication: the equal protection doctrine
- 84. An introduction to tort law
- 85. An introduction to civil procedure
- 86. An introduction to criminal procedure
- 87. Punishment
- 88. Legal research on the Web
- PART 9: LANDMARK CASES IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
- 89. Introduction
- 90. Civil law and family law cases in forensic psychiatry
- 91. Criminal law and forensic psychiatry
- 92. Legal regulation of psychiatry.