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Examinations of Competency to Stand Trial: Foundations in Mental Health Case Law - Softcover

Frederick, Richard I.; Demier, Richart L.; Smith, Martha S.; Towers, Karin

 
9781568871530: Examinations of Competency to Stand Trial: Foundations in Mental Health Case Law

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Not a guide to conducting evaluations. Instead, this updated and expanded second edition presents a highly detailed discussion of how the U.S. Supreme Court construes the legal issues affecting competence to stand trial evaluations. This text presents a level of comprehensiveness that is not covered in CST evaluation guides. Anyone involved in forensic evaluations or aspiring to become competent in forensic evaluations must read this text. It prepares possible witnesses to competently address critical issues.This new revised edition includes seven more recent legal cases with rulings from the US Supreme Court. It also contains a sixth section dealing with Adjudicative Competency in Juveniles.

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Richard I. Frederick. PhD, ABPP, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Oklahoma State University in 1986. He is Board Certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, and serves as National Chair of Examinations and President of the American Board of Forensic Psychology and is Co-Chair of the Continuing Education of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. After retiring from the U.S. Navy with rank of Captain in 2008, he later also retired from the U.S. Department of Justice. He is in private practice in Springfield, Missouri.Richart L. DeMier, PhD, ABPP, earned his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1994. He is Board Certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology, and he serves as an examiner for applicants for board certification. He practices clinical and forensic psychology at the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. At that facility, he conducts forensic evaluations of federally charged criminal defendants from all federal jurisdictions, and for 10 years, he served as the director of the U.S. Medical Center's APA-accredited internship program.Martha Smith, PsyD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the Indiana State University in 2008 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 2009. She is currently employed as a psychologist at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Saline, Michigan. She conducts forensic evaluations at the facility and provides treatment to to a forensic population.

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