Law and mental health
Subtitle: a case-based approach
By: Robert G. Meyer, Christopher M. Weaver.
Contributors: Weaver, Christopher M.
Publisher: Guilford Press; The Guilford Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Mental health laws -- United States -- Cases.; Insanity -- Jurisprudence -- United States -- Cases.; Forensic psychiatry -- United States -- Cases.
Genres: Cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jury selection and process : precedent impacting jury consultation and research; title: Admission of expert testimony and the eyewitness; title: Informed consent; title: Confidentiality and privileged communication; title: Duty to warn and protect; title: Competency; title: Insanity and criminal responsibility; title: Civil commitment and dangerousness; title: Hypnosis and the polygraph; title: Sexual orientation and civil rights; title: Personal injury : court proceedings and assessment of psychological damages; title: Prisoners' rights to medical and mental health treatment; title: Alcohol and drug abuse and dependence; title: Mental retardation; title: Psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder; title: Criminal psychological profiling; title: The death penalty; title: Sex offenders : community notification and predator commitment; title: Juvenile law and school law; title: Capital punishment of juveniles; title: Child abuse; title: Child custody.