Forensic Psychiatry
：A Lawyer’s Guide
Publication subTitle ：A Lawyer’s Guide
Publisher： Elsevier Science
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9780128028865
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780128028520
Subject： D917 犯罪学;D919 法医学
Keyword： 法律
Language： ENG
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Description
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.
- A user-friendly roadmap to psychiatry for the non-psychiatrist—covers why you need a forensic psychiatrist and the applications of psychiatry to law
- Provides coverage of the mental status examination, common psychiatric diagnoses, treatable disorders versus brain damage, medical problems masquerading as mental illness, and much more
- Includes a full glossary of psychiatric terms as an additional easy reference guide
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