Forensic mental health assessment of children and adolescents
By: edited by Steven N. Sparta, Gerald P. Koocher.
Contributors: Sparta, Steven N.; Koocher, Gerald P.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780195145847
Subjects: Behavioral assessment of children; Behavioral assessment of teenagers; Forensic psychology; Mental illness -- Diagnosis; Forensic Psychiatry -- methods -- Child; Forensic Psychiatry -- methods -- Adolescent; Personality Assessment -- Child; Personality Assessment -- Adolescent; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis -- Child; Mental Disorders -- diagnosis -- Adolescent
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction and overview of forensic mental health assessment of children and adolescents; title: Introduction to forensic assessment of children; title: Forensic assessment issues : ethics, lawyers, courts, cultural considerations, professional liability; title: The legal contexts of forensic assessment of children and adolescents : an overview / by Lois A. Weithorn; title: Integrating assessment, treatment, and justice : pipe dream or possibility? / by Gary B. Melton and Robin J. Kimbrough-Melton; title: Ethical issues in forensic assessment of children and adolescents / by Gerald P. Koocher; title: Ten rules : how to get along better with lawyers and the legal system / by William E. Foote; title: Avoiding malpractice in child forensic assessment / by O. Brandt Caudill, Jr.; title: Working with courts, judges and lawyers : what forensic mental health professionals should know about being an expert witness / by Steven R. Smith; title: Interpreting forensic interview and test data of Latino children : recommendations for culturally competent evaluations / by Roberto J. Velasquez, Jeanett Castellanos, Maria Garrido, Paula Maness, Ulla Anderson, and Shirley Amanda Gabazon; title: Forensic mental health applications; title: Forensic interviewing of children and adolescents / by Linda Sayler Gudas and Jerome M. Sattler; title: Assessing child sexual abuse allegations in a legal context / by Kathryn Kuehnle and Steven N. Sparta; title: Evaluating the effects of domestic violence on children / by Lois Oberlander Xondie; title: Child physical abuse and neglect : medical and other considerations in forensic psychological assessment / by Amy C. Tishelman, Alice W. Newton, Jennifer E. Denton and Andrea M. Vandeven; title: Assessing risk for violence among juvenile offenders / by Randy Borum; title: Psychological evaluation for child custody / by Steven N. Sparta and Philip M. Stahl; title: Assessing eligibility for and appropriateness of special education services / by Stephen T. DeMers and Leah Nellis; title: Examining children in personal injury claims / by Michael A. Goldberg; title: Neuropsychological considerations in forensic child assessment / by Karen E. Wills and Jerry J. Sweet; title: A pediatric lead litigation primer : foundations for mental health assessment / by Steven B. Bisbing; title: Bullying and stalking in children and adolescents : assessing obsessional harassment / by Joseph T. McCann; title: Forensic assessment of amenability to rehabilitation in juvenile delinquency / by Robert Kinscherff; title: Forensic assessment of parenting in child abuse and neglect cases / by Catherine Ayoub and Robert Kinscherff; title: Forensic evaluation of juvenile sexual offenders / by David Medoff and Robert T. Kinscherff; title: Assessing childhood trauma and developmental factors as mitigation in capital cases / by Alan M. Goldstein, Naomi E. Goldstein, and Rachel Kalbeitzer; title: Assessing firesetting behavior in children and adolescents / by David K. Wilcox; title: Selected measurement issues; title: The MMPI-A in forensic assessment / by James N. Butcher and Kenneth S. Pope; title: Measures for evaluating child sexual abuse / by William N. Friedrich; title: Measuring adolescent personality and psychopathology with the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) / by Joseph T. McCann.