Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Mental Health

In this book, Norman Cantor analyzes the legal and moral status of people with profound mental disabilities -- those with extreme cognitive impairments that prevent their exercise of medical self-determination. He proposes a legal and moral framework for surrogate medical decision making on their behalf. The issues Cantor explores will be of interest to professionals in law, medicine, psychology, philosophy, and ethics, as well as to parents, guardians, and health care providers who face perplexing issues in the context of surrogate medical decision making.

The profoundly mentally...

PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT --Theodore H. Blau

This unique training guide/reference was written in response to the ever-growing demand for psychological services in law enforcement agencies. Written by one of the nation's most respected experts in forensic psychology, it offers psychologists now working in law enforcement agencies and those interested in entering the field, a detailed overview of the many functions psychologists serve within those agencies. Organized by sections corresponding to the major functions psychologists...

Minding Justice offers a comprehensive examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention, and protection of people with mental disabilities. Using famous cases such as those of John Hinckley, Andrea Yates, and Theodore Kaczynski, the book analyzes the insanity defense and related doctrines, the role of mental disability in sentencing, the laws that authorize commitment of "sexual predators" and others thought to be a threat to society, and the rules that restrict participation of mentally compromised individuals in the criminal and treatment decision-making processes....

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This is a step by step guide to understanding Mania.Based on the international best seller (hypermania revealed) it try's to talk in simple terms about mania.
This book also gives a positive insight into hypermania, hypomania, and mania. Condition's which many of us suffer or enjoy but very few of us recognise. Until now As much a self-help business management book as a book on mental health.
The book gives factual and medical information about hyper mania and provides personal accounts of mania, thus enabling more people to understand these condition. This book...