Forensic Psychiatry: A Lawyer's Guide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780128028520)

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.

Author: Vivian Shnaidman
ISBN-10: 0128028521
ISBN-13: 9780128028520
Publisher: Academic Press
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2016
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 7.60w x 0.60d