This is the definitive reference and text for both mental health and legal professionals. The authors offer a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the legal and clinical contexts of forensic assessment, along with best-practice guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings. Presented are findings, instruments, and procedures related to criminal and civil competencies, civil commitment, sentencing, personal injury claims, antidiscrimination laws, child custody, juvenile justice, and more.
- ISBN10 1572309660
- ISBN13 9781572309661
- Publish Date 25 October 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Guilford Publications
- Edition 3rd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 930
- Language English