Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide

ISBN-13: 9780128028520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 214 str.

Shnaidman, Vivian

Opis

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

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Why you need a forensic psychiatristChapter 2: What is psychiatry?Chapter 3: Applications of psychiatry to lawChapter 4: The Mental Status ExaminationChapter 5: Common psychiatric diagnosesChapter 6: Bad vs. MadChapter 7: Critical concept in competencyChapter 8: Treatable disorders vs brain damageChapter 9: Medical problemsChapter 10: Hearing voicesChapter 11: Your Expert WitnessChapter 12: Summary and conclusionsGlossary of Terms