Table of contents for Psychological evaluations for the courts : a handbook for mental health professionals and lawyers / Gary B. Melton ... [et al.].


Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog


Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.

Counter
I. General Considerations

1. Law and the Mental Health Professions: An Uneasy Alliance

2. An Overview of the Legal System: Sources of Law, the Court System, and the Adjudicative Process

3. The Nature and Method of Forensic Assessment

4. Constitutional, Common-Law, and Ethical Contours of the Evaluation Process: The Mental Health Professional as Double Agent

5. Managing Public and Private Forensic Services

II. The Criminal Process

6. Competency to Stand Trial

7. Other Competencies in the Criminal Process

8. Mental State at the Time of the Offense

9. Sentencing

III. Noncriminal Adjudication

10. Civil Commitment

11. Civil Competencies

12. Compensating Mental Injury: Workers' Compensation and Torts

13. Federal Antidiscrimination and Entitlement Laws

IV. Children and Families

14. Juvenile Delinquency

15. Child Abuse and Neglect

16. Child Custody in Divorce

17. Education and Habilitation

V. Communicating with the Courts

18. Consultation, Report Writing, and Expert Testimony

19. Sample Reports

20. Glossary



Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Forensic psychology.
Forensic psychiatry.
Evidence, Expert -- United States.
Insanity -- Jurisprudence -- United States.