附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-513) and indexes.
Cover -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1. ADVANCES IN ASSESSMENTS FOR LEGAL COMPETENCIES -- Legal Competencies -- Improving Evaluations for Legal Competencies: How Far Have We Come? -- The Value of a Conceptual Model -- CHAPTER 2. LEGALLY RELEVANT ASSESSMENTS FOR LEGAL COMPETENCIES -- Introduction -- Five Components of Legal Competencies -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3. EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR LEGAL COMPETENCIES -- Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Standards for Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Orientation to the Instrument Reviews -- CHAPTER 4. COMPETENCE TO STAND TRIAL -- The Competence Question -- Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Current Status of The Field -- CHAPTER 5. WAIVER OF RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND LEGAL COUNSEL -- The Competence Question -- Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Current Status of the Field -- CHAPTER 6. NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY -- The Competence Question -- Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Current Status of the Field -- CHAPTER 7. PARENTING CAPACITY -- The Competence Question -- Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Current Status of the Field -- CHAPTER 8. GUARDIANSHIP AND CONSERVATORSHIP -- The Competence Question -- Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- A. IADL Instruments Based on Interview or Observation -- B. Performance Based Instruments to Assess IADL's -- C. Performance Based Instruments to Assess Need for Guardian or Conservator -- Current Status of the Field -- CHAPTER 9. COMPETENCE TO CONSENT TO TREATMENT -- The Competence Question -- Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Current Status of the Field -- CHAPTER 10. DEVELOPING AND USING FORENSIC ASSESSMENT -- Developing Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Using Forensic Assessment Instruments -- Continuing the Improvement of Forensic Assessments -- REFERENCES -- LEGAL CITATIONS.
摘要:As in its first edition, this book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in the second edition are new and thus were not reviewed in the first edition. Application of the assessment model and reviews of instruments are provided for six areas of legal competence: -Competence to Stand Trial; -Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel; -Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity; -Parenting Capacity - Determination of Child Custody; -Guardianship and Conservatorship; and -Competence to Consent to Treatment.
