Forensic Mental Health Concepts
Patricia A. Zapf and Ronald Roesch
in Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial
Chapter 2 provides an overview of forensic mental health concepts and present a framework for assessing competence based on a functional, contextual perspective.
Characteristics of “Good” Psychodynamic Interventions
Brian A. Sharpless
in Psychodynamic Therapy Techniques: A Guide to Expressive and Supportive Interventions
This chapter describes eleven characteristics of “good” interventions that have been extracted from a number of psychodynamic texts and manuals. It is argued that interventions be ...
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Culture as Behavior Change
Ian M. Evans
in How and Why People Change: Foundations of Psychological Therapy
Culture—a set of beliefs, values, worldviews, and rules of behavior—strongly determines an individual’s psychological makeup. This chapter elaborates the argument that therapeutic change ...
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Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
Robert A. DiTomasso, Stacey C. Cahn, Susan M. Panichelli-Mindel, and Roger K. McFillin
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Psychology
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is quite literally the most researched psychotherapy in history with the most empirical support hailing its efficacy. Accordingly, competence in CBT is ...
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Family Systems Approaches
Robert A. DiTomasso, Stacey C. Cahn, Susan M. Panichelli-Mindel, and Roger K. McFillin
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Psychology
Systems approaches to therapy focus on the system of which the individual is part, while still considering the individual. There are a variety of approaches to treatment within systems ...
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Preparation and Training as a Military Psychologist
Peter J. N. Linnerooth† and Brock A. McNabb
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Military psychologists treat a variety of psychological problems, often under difficult conditions. Recommendations are provided to help doctoral students make the decision to become a ...
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Delivering Psychological Services to Religious and Spiritual Clients
Gina Magyar-Russell
in Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved: Challenges and Strategies
Spiritual and religious beliefs and practices in the United States are becoming increasingly diverse. This chapter reviews some of the fundamental problems and obstacles to providing ...
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Bringing Psychotherapy to Immigrants
Hamid Mirsalimi
in Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved: Challenges and Strategies
Immigrants have unique mental health challenges and treatment needs. This chapter attempts to shed light on the challenges, barriers, and potential solutions to providing psychotherapy to ...
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Becoming Licensed Means That I Am Now Competent
Jeffrey E. Barnett and Jeffrey Zimmerman
in If You Build It They Will Come: And Other Myths of Private Practice in the Mental Health Professions
Mental health clinicians invest in many years of hard work to develop their clinical competence through graduate coursework and through supervised clinical experiences. All this is done ...
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Preparation for the Evaluation
Antoinette Kavanaugh and Thomas Grisso
in Evaluations for Sentencing of Juveniles in Criminal Court
Chapter 4 offers guidance for the clinician in the earliest stages of the evaluation process before engaging in the evaluation itself. The first section focuses on whether the clinician is ...
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Sexual Orientation
Bonnie Moradi and Stephanie L. Budge
in Psychotherapy Relationships that Work: Volume 2: Evidence-Based Therapist Responsiveness (3 edn)
The clinical need for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ+) affirmative psychotherapies has been widely recognized; however, empirical research on the outcomes of such psychotherapies ...
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Juvenile Competence to Stand Trial
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
This chapter focuses on juveniles’ competence to stand trial. The principle illustrated by the first case addresses the importance of considering both relevance and scientific reliability ...
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Competence to Stand Trial
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
This chapter focuses on the legal question of competence to stand trial. This form of competence (which has also been called adjudicative competence in recognition of the reality that most ...
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Empirical Foundations and Limits
Patricia A. Zapf and Ronald Roesch
in Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial
Chapter 3 provides a comprehensive but concise overview of research on competence to stand trial (CST) and competency assessment instruments.
Individual and Cultural Considerations
Robert A. DiTomasso, Stacey C. Cahn, Susan M. Panichelli-Mindel, and Roger K. McFillin
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Psychology
The competent clinical psychologist assesses cultural variables and understands behavior to be culturally and contextually driven. In this chapter, the APA’s “Guidelines on Multicultural ...
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Relationship Competency
Robert A. DiTomasso, Stacey C. Cahn, Susan M. Panichelli-Mindel, and Roger K. McFillin
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Psychology
In this chapter the critical importance of the professional relationship as it relates to the roles and functions of the clinical psychologist is discussed. The importance of the ...
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Development in the Transition to Adulthood: Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
Keith B. Burt and Ann S. Masten
in Young Adult Mental Health
This chapter reviews the status of research on young adult development from a developmental psychopathology perspective, particularly with respect to psychosocial competence and problems in ...
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Cultural Competence and Prevention Programming
Cynthia Hudley
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Bullying, victimization, and risk for suicide are serious and interrelated problems for adolescents today. The prevalence of these mental health challenges varies by demographic variables, ...
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Managed Care Is Evil and Should Be Avoided Like the Plague; Experienced and Competent Clinicians Don’t Participate in Managed Care
Jeffrey E. Barnett and Jeffrey Zimmerman
in If You Build It They Will Come: And Other Myths of Private Practice in the Mental Health Professions
It is easy to believe that managed care is evil and that it should be avoided at all possible costs. Yet, as this chapter explains, not all managed care companies are equivalent. How to ...
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Report Writing and Testimony
Patricia A. Zapf and Ronald Roesch
in Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial
Chapter 7 outlines steps for report writing and testimony, including determination regarding whether a report is to be written, the nature and purpose of the written report, contents of the ...
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