FORENSIC INTERVIEWING IN CRIMINAL COURT MATTERS; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC INTERVIEWING; Chapter 2 CONDUCTING A FORENSIC INTERVIEW; Chapter 3 DECEPTION AND RESPONSE BIAS IN FORENSIC INTERVIEWING; Chapter 4 PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Chapter 5 MSO INTERVIEWS; Chapter 6 ADJUDICATIVE COMPETENCE INTERVIEWS; Chapter 7 PREDISPOSITION INTERVIEWS; Chapter 8 VIOLENT OFFENDERS; Chapter 9 SEXUAL OFFENDERS; Chapter 10 ADOLESCENT OFFENDERS; Chapter 11 THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION; APPENDICES; Appendix A FORENSIC INTAKE DOCUMENTS; Appendix B SAMPLE INTERVIEW FOR A VIOLENT OFFENDER
Appendix C SAMPLE INTERVIEW FOR A SEXUAL OFFENDERAppendix D SAMPLE INTERVIEW FOR INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; Appendix ESAMPLE MSO INTERVIEW; Appendix F SAMPLE FITNESS (COMPETENCE) FOR TRIAL INTERVIEW; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
Summary
Forensic mental health assessment has essentially become synonymous with forensic psychological assessment. This necessary shift toward empirically grounded procedures has had the unfortunate by-product of diminishing the importance of the clinical interview in favor of procedures biased in the direction of rigid structure and statistical formulas. In contrast, the authors' approach to forensic mental health places the individual front and center in the assessment process. The need to treat the interviewee as an individual rather than a member of some statistically defined group is the recurri
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