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Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide

Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceCriminologyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0128028521
ISBN13: 9780128028520
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: Jan 20 2016
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.60 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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