| Description |
1 online resource (218 pages) |
| Contents |
Confidentiality and privilege -- Informed consent -- Duty to protect -- Expert testimony -- Questions on mental health practice guidelines -- Civil commitment -- Right to die -- Right to treatment -- Right to refuse treatment -- Questions on institutional treatment guidelines -- Child abuse reporting -- Child custody & parental competencies -- Juvenile rights -- Education for all handicapped persons act -- Questions on child and adolescent issues -- Disability -- Emotional harm -- Health insurance -- Sexual harassment -- Sex -- Questions on tort law -- Criminal procedure -- Criminal competencies -- Diminished capacity -- Insanity -- Prisoners' rights -- Death penalty -- Sex offenders -- Questions on criminal law and incarceration |
| Summary |
Forensic psychiatry (the interface of psychiatry and the law), forensic psychology, and mental health law are growing and evolving subspecialties in their respective larger disciplines. Topics included in these fields include a range as diverse as capital sentencing guidelines, informed consent, and standards of care for mental health treatment. All of these topics need to be understood and mastered by clinicians, educators, administrators and attorneys working with psychiatric patients. This book brings together concise, comprehensive summaries of the most important ""landmark"" legal decisio |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Forensic psychiatry.
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Forensic psychiatry -- Case studies
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Forensic Psychiatry -- methods
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Forensic psychiatry
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Case studies
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ford, Elizabeth (Elizabeth B.), editor.
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Rotter, Merrill, editor
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| LC no. |
2014000080 |
| ISBN |
9780199344666 |
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0199344663 |
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0199344671 |
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9780199344673 |
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0199389039 |
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9780199389032 |
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