Introduction to Forensic Assessment of Children
Steven N. Sparta and Gerald P. Koocher
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
This chapter introduces the subject of the forensic assessment of children. This includes distinctions between traditional psychological practice and forensic roles, and between child and ...
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Building a Knowledge Base for Legal and Social Concerns about Animal Maltreatment
Thomas Grisso
in Animal Maltreatment: Forensic Mental Health Issues and Evaluations
This chapter describes what the knowledge base for a subfield of animal maltreatment in forensic mental health might look like after it has matured. In doing so, it also offers a guide for ...
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Introduction
Kirk Heilbrun, Thomas Grisso, and Alan M. Goldstein
in Foundations of Forensic Mental Health Assessment
Chapter 1 introduces the forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) and the aims of the Best Practices in FMHA series. The specifics and structure of the series are also presented. ...
Child Custody
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
The two reports in this chapter are assessments of child custody. Requests for child custody evaluations typically come from the court, or from attorneys representing one of the divorcing ...
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Response Style
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
This chapter focuses on the assessment of response style as part of FMHA. “Response style” describes how an individual being evaluated responds to the assessment material, with primary ...
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Miranda Waiver Capacity
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
Chapter 2 discusses the capacity of adult defendants to waive their Miranda rights. The principle to be applied to the first case concerns the value of nomothetic data, derived from groups ...
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The Nature and Evolution of Forensic Mental Health Assessment
Kirk Heilbrun, Thomas Grisso, and Alan M. Goldstein
in Foundations of Forensic Mental Health Assessment
Chapter 2 offers definitions of forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) and reviews its history in two ways: the growth of its formal infrastructure, and a sketch of some of the forensic ...
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A Pediatric Lead Litigation Primer: Foundations for Mental Health Assessment
Steven B. Bisbing
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 17 provides a detailed primer on litigationrelated to the toxic effects of lead on children. It presents the nature of the problem, litigation, forensic implications, and details of ...
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Forensic Interviewing of Children and Adolescents
Linda Sayler Gudas and Jerome M. Sattler
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 8 begins a number of assessment-relatedchapters, providing a general framework onforensic interviewing in a developmental context. This chapter presents advice on general clinical ...
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Evaluation of Violence Risk in Adults
Kirk Heilbrun, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Christopher King
in Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law: A Handbook for Lawyers
This chapter reviews concepts of forensic mental health assessment that are relevant to the evaluation of violence risk in adults. It first provides an overview of the legal context ...
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Integrating Assessment, Treatment, and Justice: Pipe Dream or Possibility?
Gary B. Melton and Robin J. Kimbrough-Melton
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 2 describes the problem of integrating forensic assessment and mental health treatment of children in the American justice system. It presents an integrated discussion of complex ...
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Guardianship
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
The case report in this chapter is about the competence of adults to manage their own affairs. Evaluations of this type help courts decide whether a guardian should be appointed to handle ...
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Competence for Execution
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
The report in this chapter describes an evaluation of competence for execution. These evaluations have been guided by case law, although the statutorily defined criteria may differ by ...
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Assessing Child Sexual Abuse Allegations in a Legal Context
Kathryn Kuehnle and Steven N. Sparta
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 9 provides detailed suggestionsfor framing evaluations of child sexual abuse allegationsin forensic contexts. It reviews issues critical to the assessment of alleged child sexual ...
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Working With Courts, Judges, and Lawyers: What Forensic Mental Health Professionals Should Know About Being Expert Witnesses
Steven R. Smith
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 6 provides an analysis of the mental healthexpert witness role. It considers the law of expert witnesses, the nature of expertise, and the role of mental health experts in the legal ...
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Evaluating the Effects of Domestic Violence on Children
Lois Oberlander Condie
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 10 presents strategies for evaluating the effectsof domestic violence on children. The data andstrategies suggested aim to help readers separate objectiveforensics from popular ...
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The MMPI-A in Forensic Assessment
James N. Butcher and Kenneth S. Pope
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
Chapter 24 reviews information and issues vital to those who use the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents (MMPI-A) in forensic assessments, as well as to those (e.g., ...
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Report Writing and Testimony
Ivan Kruh and Thomas Grisso
in Evaluation of Juveniles' Competence to Stand Trial
Chapter 7 explores report writing and testimony. This chapter touches briefly on matters that are general to most forensic reports and testimony, while providing greater detail on matters ...
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Harassment and Discrimination
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
Chapter 14 discusses workplace harassment and discrimination. Evaluations of harassment and discrimination typically arise when a civil plaintiff makes a claim involving suffering mental or ...
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Evaluation for Child Custody
Geri Fuhrmann and Robert A. Zibbell
in Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law: A Handbook for Lawyers
This chapter reviews concepts of forensic mental health assessment that are relevant to child custody. It first provides an overview of the legal context underlying child custody ...
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