Forensic Reports &amp; Testimony: A Guide to Effective Communication for Psychologists and Psychiatrists provides a roadmap for the mental health professional who wants to provide consistently accurate, defensible, and useful reports and testimony to the legal system. Authors Randy K. Otto, Richart L. DeMier, and Marcus Boccaccini, recognized experts in the field, cover all aspects of the process, including preparing affidavits and reports, preparing for depositions, and testifying. Every written or spoken communication for the courts must be clear and precise, and distinguish between facts, inferences, and opinions. This book uniquely: •Shows the critical differences between forensic psychological reports and the clinical reports psychologists and psychiatrists are accustomed to writing •Includes and explains important maxims of forensic report writing, including separating facts from inferences, focusing on offering expert opinions, explaining why you think what you think, and connecting the dots between facts and conclusions •Provides numerous examples of experts’ testimony, affidavits, reports-with commentary and critiques Expert forensic work deserves to be presented in a clear, precise, and understandable way so that it is useful to attorneys, judges, and juries. Forensic Reports &amp; Testimony provides the guidelines and models forensic psychologists and forensic psychiatrists need to make that happen.

Forensic Reports and Testimony: A Guide to Effective Communication for Psychologists and Psychiatrists

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Otto, Randy K.

DeMier, Richart L.

Boccaccini, Marcus T.

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

Not a guide to conducting evaluations. Instead, this updated and expanded second edition presents a highly detailed discussion of how the U.S. Supreme Court construes the legal issues affecting competence to stand trial evaluations. This text presents a level of comprehensiveness that is not covered in CST evaluation guides. Anyone involved in forensic evaluations or aspiring to become competent in forensic evaluations must read this text. It prepares possible witnesses to competently address critical issues. This new revised edition includes seven more recent legal cases with rulings from the US Supreme Court. It also contains a sixth section dealing with Adjudicative Competency in Juveniles.

Examinations of Competency to Stand Trial: Foundations in Mental Health Case Law

Frederick, Richard I.

Smith, Martha S.

Towers, Karin

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