Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789038161 ISBN 13: 9780789038166

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Get crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal system

Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings. This unique text is organized around the most current ethical and legal standards as defined by the mental health professionals of psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, and psychiatry. Respected well-known authorities with diverse backgrounds, expertise, and professional experience offer a far-reaching discussion of ethical and legal issues important for every mental health professional to know.

Practicing clinicians increasingly find themselves needing to deal with the legal system about a multitude of issues. Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings not only presents mental health professionals, but also attorneys who defend mental health professionals providing legal and ethical discussions of importance to the field. This powerful resource provides up-to-date crucial knowledge for graduate students and clinicians alike. The final book in the three volume series will focus on special populations/special treatment modalities.

Topics in Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings include:

• the discovery process
• depositions
• personal injury evaluations
• various types of witness preparation for court testimony
• psychological evaluations
• juvenile court dependency
• forensic evaluations
• dealing with litigation with civil lawsuits
• tests that relate to false memories of trauma
• APA’s Ethics Committee process and State Ethics Committees processes

Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings is an essential text for all mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, therapists, and graduate students in mental health and related fields.

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Review:

"Full of practical information that certainly will be of value to psychologists and other mental health providers who in the context of their clinical practice become involved with the legal system. Well organized and written." -Samuel T. Gontkovsky and Shannon Calpin, PsycCRITIQUES

Synopsis:

This work offers crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal system. "Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals" (Haworth, 2005) was the classic first handbook of a three-volume series that examined the issues of ethical and legal principles and standards involving mental health professionals. "Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals in Forensic Settings" is the second volume in the series that comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings. This unique text is organized around the most current ethical and legal standards as defined by the mental health professionals of psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, and psychiatry.Respected well-known authorities with diverse backgrounds, expertise, and professional experience offer a far-reaching discussion of ethical and legal issues important for every mental health professional to know. Practicing clinicians increasingly find themselves needing to deal with the legal system about a multitude of issues.

"Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals in Forensic Settings" not only presents mental health professionals, but also attorneys who defend mental health professionals providing legal and ethical discussions of importance to the field. This powerful resource provides up-to-date crucial knowledge for graduate students and clinicians alike. This final book in the three volume series will focus on special populations/special treatment modalities.Topics in "Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals in Forensic Settings" include: the discovery process; depositions; personal injury evaluations; various types of witness preparation for court testimony; psychological evaluations; juvenile court; dependency; forensic evaluations dealing with litigation with civil lawsuits; tests that relate to false memories of trauma; and, APA's Ethics Committee process and State Ethics Committees processes.

"Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals in Forensic Settings" is an essential text for all mental health professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, therapists, and graduate students in mental health and related fields.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0789038161
• ISBN 13: 9780789038166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Bucky Steven F, Callan Joanne E, Stricker George