Product Description: Clinicians who understand mental health care administration in addition to their clinical fields are likely to be valuable to the organizations in which they work. This handbook is an accessible source of information for professionals coming from either clinical or management backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Manfred S. Guttmacher Award Winner Developing a forensic practice can be confusing and intimidating. Dr. William Reid, a highly experienced forensic psychiatrist, has written a practical, straightforward guide for clinicians interested in doing it right and increasing their opportunities for a successful transition to forensic work. This book, which will be of interest to many attorneys as well, provides straightforward details, along with many case examples, of lawyer-expert communications and relationships, case assessment, record review, evaluations, reports, deposition and trial testimony, fees and billing, office operations, marketing, liability, and professional ethics. A bonus chapter by a successful malpractice attorney gives a unique and valuable "lawyer’s perspective" on the content and mental health experts in general. The huge appendix provides over 40 highly useful examples of common office forms, letters, reports, and affidavits. Any mental health professional who currently practices, or wants to practice, at the interface of mental health and the law will find this an indispensible practice resource.

Product Description: This collection of clinical vignettes can be used in several ways, including as an adjunct to teaching, in self-instruction for individuals and groups, and as a video examination in DSM-IV diagnosis. It contains sixteen vignettes ranging in length from five to 12 minutes and includes a program guide that illustrates one or more Axis I or Axis II disorders...read more

Product Description: The passions at Fields University in New Hampshire run high. When the anatomy professor is cut open, Mike Thatcher is assigned to the case. Evidence points to the plant ecologist, Ruth. But there’s new confusion as murders pile up...read more

Product Description: Who are offenders with special needs and what kind of treatment do they need? Offering a multi-disciplinary look at mental health services in the correctional field, this work comprehensively examines the field and explores the history, rights and standards in mental health corrections...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a no-nonsense guide to how mental health practitioners can lower the legal risks and avoid the common pitfalls of contemporary practice. Written specifically for nonphysician practitioners, this book explains common forensic issues and standards as they apply to mental health professionals, and it helps clarify risk-benefit questions involved in mental health care delivery...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: A guide for those who teach others how to use DSM-III. Also useful as a self-study guide. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: Book by Lion, John R.