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Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments (Perspectives in Law and Psychology)
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Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments (Perspectives in Law and Psychology)
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by Thomas Grisso
Sales Rank: 666584
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List Price: $199.00
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Hardcover: 538 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. edition November 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0306473437
ISBN-13: 978-0306473432
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Description
As in its first edition, this book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in the second edition are new and thus were not reviewed in the first edition.
Application of the assessment model and reviews of instruments are provided for six areas of legal competence:
*Competence to Stand Trial;
*Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel;
*Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity;
*Parenting Capacity - Determination of Child Custody;
*Guardianship and Conservatorship; and
*Competence to Consent to Treatment.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments (Perspectives in Law & Psychology) (Paperback)
"The first edition of this book was a classic, widely cited both for its analysis of forensic assessment instruments and for Grisso's integrative theory of forensic evaluation. With the second edition, Evaluating Competencies remains a classic. I expect that whenever a forensic psychologist of psychiatrist prepares for an advanced examination in this specialty, this book will-or should-be one of the first books reviewed." Philip H. Witt, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Dept. of Psychiatry Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
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