Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments

Thomas Grisso

Springer Science & Business Media, Jan 27, 2006 - Psychology - 541 pages

As in its first edition, this book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in the second edition are new and thus were not reviewed in the first edition.

Application of the assessment model and reviews of instruments are provided for six areas of legal competence:
-Competence to Stand Trial;
-Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel;
-Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity;
-Parenting Capacity - Determination of Child Custody;
-Guardianship and Conservatorship; and
-Competence to Consent to Treatment.

Contents

• ADVANCES IN ASSESSMENTS FOR LEGAL COMPETENCIES: 1
• LEGALLY RELEVANT ASSESSMENTS: 21
• Judgmental and Dispositional Components: 36
• Defining Legally Relevant: 39
• 64: 64
• Adjudication MacCATCA Fitness Interview TestRevised FITR: 101
• Defendants with Mental Retardation CASTMR Georgia Court Competence TestMississippi State: 108
• Hospital GCCTMSH Competence to Stand Trial Assessment Instrument CAI Competence Screening Test CST Current Status of The Field Research Di...: 115
• 139: 139
• The Competence Question: 149
• Law and Current Practice From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments Comprehension of Miranda Right...: 150
• Comprehension of Miranda Vocabulary CMV Function of Rights in Interrogation FRI Current Status of the Field Research Directions Clinical Applic...: 177
• Randy Borum The Competence Question Law and Current Practice From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment Review of Forensic Assessment Instr...: 193
• Evaluation MSE Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales RCRAS Current Status of the Field Research Directions Clinical Application: 209
• PARENTING CAPACITY Randy K Otto and John F Edens: 229
• Custody ASPECT Bricklin Perceptual Scales BPS Perception of Relationships Test PORT Parent Awareness Skills Survey PASS and Parent: 258
• Perception of Child Profile PPCP: 278
• Parenting Stress Index PSI ParentChild Relationship Inventory PCRI Current Status of the Field Research Directions Clinical Application CHAPTER 8...: 292
• Questionnaire MFAQ Philadelphia Geriatric Center Multilevel Assessment: 338
• InventoryMAI B Performance Based Instruments to Assess IADLs Direct Assessment of Functional Status DAFS Everyday Problems Test EPT C Perf...: 346
• Conservator Decisionmaking Instrument for Guardianship DIG Financial Capacity Instrument FCI Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview HCAI I...: 359
• Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview HCAI: 412
• Clinical Research MacCATCR Understanding Treatment Disclosures UTD Perceptions of Disorder POD Thinking Rationallyabout TreatmentTRAT Ps...: 429
• DEVELOPING AND USING FORENSIC ASSESSMENT: 461
• SUBJECT INDEX: 529

Bibliographic information

• Title: Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments; Volume 16 of Perspectives in Law & Psychology
• Author: Thomas Grisso
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2006
• ISBN: 0306479222, 9780306479229
• Length: 541 pages
• Subjects: Law / Criminal Law / General; Medical / Public Health; Psychology / Applied Psychology; Psychology / Clinical Psychology; Psychology / General; Psychology / Psychopathology / General; Social Science / Criminology