Product Description: As many as one in four adults in the workforce will suffer from psychiatric illness in a given year. Such illness can have serious consequences -- job loss, lawsuits, workplace violence―yet the effects of mental health issues on job functioning are rarely covered in clinical training...read more

Product Description: In their latest collaboration, Clinical Manual of Psychiatry and Law, noted forensic psychiatrist Dr. Robert Simon and legal scholar Daniel Shuman, both recipients of the Guttmacher Award, have created a unique, practical reference to enable psychiatrists to transform the impact of the law on their clinical practices from an adversary to a working partner...read more

Product Description: This book examines the use of expert testimony across the legal system, including the unique issues faced by mental health professionals when they are called upon to serve as expert witnesses. The book carefully reveals the evolution of laws regarding evidence admissability, the requirements established by specific court rulings for scientific and non-scientific expert testimony, and the new rules for submission of psychological expertise in court...read more

Product Description: This text provides a review of the laws in the state of Texas as they relate to the mental health profession. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Why did the defendant do it?"Mental health professionals are asked to help courts answer this question. To serve justice, the law calls for evidence of the mental state at the time a crime is committed, of suicide intent in civil litigation, and of mental capacity in contract litigation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume questions how individuals and societies ought to deal with crimes committed in the distant past. Agency and responsibility on the part of the wrongdoer are weighed against forgiveness and mercy on the part of the victim. Examples are drawn from all areas of law. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This useful volume will help researchers and practitioners ensure the legal relevance of their initial research question as well as conduct their own evaluation of the primary legal materials. The book describes how to use a law library to: find, cite and track cases; uncover statutes passed by the state legislatures; examine the legislative history of these statutes and administrative rules and regulations; and discover decisions promulgated by state agencies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book by two acknowledged leaders in the field offers comprehensive and detailed coverage of law and mental health, ushering in a new era of mental health law. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)