Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Fourth Edition
A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks mental health professionals to address. The volume demystifies the forensic psychological assessment process and provides...
Clinicians in Court, Second Edition
A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Interacting with the legal system can be stressful and intimidating for mental health professionals. This trusted book provides user-friendly strategies to help clinicians prepare for testimony in court and other legal proceedings. Using vivid case scenarios, the author explains legal terms and offers...
An End to Murder
A Criminologist's View of Violence Throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The acclaimed author of such seminal works as The Occult and The Outsider and his son investigate the history and causes of unnecessary human violence.
Human history can be seen as a catalog of coldhearted murders, mindless blood feuds, appalling massacres, and devastating wars. We are the only...
Profilers
Leading Investigators Take You Inside The Criminal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
In this compilation of expert articles internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of the most notorious crimes.Among the subjects...
by Ira K. Packer
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular...
Crime and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Myths and Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can - given certain situational conditions - make individuals more vulnerable to becoming caught up in criminal activity and vulnerable to unfavourable interactions once in the criminal justice system.
Guided by empirical research, psychological theory...
Counseling in the Family Law System
A Professional Counselor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This practical career guide is the first book written specifically for professional counselors on how to provide services to the family court system, a growing and lucrative field of practice. Written by a professional counselor with over 20 years of experience, it discusses the roles of counselors...
by Dr Xanthe Mallett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
All of these women are notorious, but are all of them deadly?
Child murder: A social taboo and one of the most abhorrent acts most of us can imagine.
Meet the women found guilty of murdering their own children. They represent some of the most hated women in Australia. The infamous list includes...
by Alan F. Friedman, P. Kevin Bolinskey, Richard W. Levak
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This third edition apprises users of the MMPI-2/MMPI-2-Restructured Form (RF) for the ever-changing landscape of this dynamic personality/psychopathology instrument and its expanding utility in a variety of contexts. Two new chapters addressing the RC scales and the MMPI-2-RF are included in this...
by Jane Goodman-Delahunty, William E. Foote
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular...
The Abraham Man
Growth and Development of Forensic Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Some of the most celebrated civil and criminal trials in American history were argued under the shadow of the Abraham Man. Readers will delight in the detailed stories of long forgotten legal cases which bring the antics of the Abraham Man to life. Through the process, readers will follow the careers...
by Steven J. Rubenzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Evaluations of a defendant's competence to stand trial (CST) are probably the most frequently performed forensic evaluations, with estimates in the United States ranging from 60,000 to 70,000 annually. In order for CST evaluations to be considered thorough and accurate, examiners must assess for possible...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This comprehensive Handbook of original chapters serves as a resource for clinicians and researchers alike. Two introductory chapters cover general issues in violence risk assessment, while the remainder of the book offers a comprehensive discussion of specific risk assessment measures.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book examines a range of therapeutic approaches used in prisons and other secure settings and explores the challenges in such work.
The approaches include Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive-Analytic Therapy (CAT), Attachment-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Systemic Psychotherapy....