Law and mental health a case-based approach

• Main Authors: Meyer, Robert G. (Author), Weaver, Christopher M. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Guilford Press 2006
• Subjects: Forensic Psychiatry > legislation & jurisprudence > United States; Mental Disorders > United States
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This volume presents classic and contemporary legal cases that have set important precedents related to psychological and mental health issues in criminal and civil proceedings; the role of practitioners as expert witnesses and forensic consultants; and legal concerns in general clinical practice. E...

Table of Contents:

• Jury selection and process : precedent impacting jury consultation and research
• Admission of expert testimony and the eyewitness
• Informed consent
• Confidentiality and privileged communication
• Duty to warn and protect
• Competency
• Insanity and criminal responsibility
• Civil commitment and dangerousness
• Hypnosis and the polygraph
• Sexual orientation and civil rights
• Personal injury : court proceedings and assessment of psychological damages
• Prisoners' rights to medical and mental health treatment
• Alcohol and drug abuse and dependence
• Mental retardation
• Psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder
• Criminal psychological profiling
• The death penalty
• Sex offenders : community notification and predator commitment
• Juvenile law and school law
• Capital punishment of juveniles
• Child abuse
• Child custody.