Lawyers frequently encounter clients and/or cases of bizarre behavior, mental illness, substance abuse, psychopathy, sexual offenses, learning disorders, birth defects, and other behavioral and emotional issues. Often they are ill-prepared to understand the nature of the psychiatric report, how the psychiatric assessment was structured, and how to best utilize and challenge these reports in court.Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide provides legal professionals the tools to identify mentally ill clients and help them navigate through the psychiatric information and language in reports and testimony. Topics include why a forensic psychiatrist is necessary, applications of psychiatry to law, various psychiatric disorders, and utilizing the expert witness.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780128028520
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-12-802852-0
- Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.01.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2016
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 648 g
- Seiten: 214
- Format (B x H x T): 242 x 197 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin
- Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin
- Medizinische Fachgebiete
- Forensik, Rechtsmedizin, Gerichtsmedizin
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Psychologie
- Psychologische Disziplinen
- Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie