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

Richard I. Frederick; Richart L. DeMier; Karin Towers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568870841 ISBN 13: 9781568870847

Publisher: Professional Resource Exchange, 2004

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About the Author:

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.

Karin Towers, PhD, JD, is a psychologist in Massachusetts.

Review:

A very intriguing and insightful approach to educating psychologists and other mental health professionals regarding the intimate thinking of our nation s judges. Highly readable and yet surprisingly comprehensive. An excellent compilation of judicial reflections, historical while extraordinarily current. --Pat DeLeon, former President of American Psychological Association,and former President of the American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41 of APA)

Examinations of Competency to Stand Trial provides forensic evaluators and attorneys with the basic legal tools necessary to understand the nature and scope of competency evaluations in the criminal process. The book contains easy-to-read versions of the most important legal cases on competency to stand trial and plead guilty, together with helpful commentary about their implications. --Christopher Slobogin, Stephen C. O Connell Professor of Law,University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law

The volume covers several critical issues, such as thresholds for competency examination, the way Courts respond to treatment of defendants found incompetent to stand trial, and the relevancy of amnesia to competency to stand trial. Each section has a conclusory part call Implications for Examiners, which is concise, coherent and ties together the case law presented in that section. The volume does an outstanding job of informing clinicians about the Court s perspective so that clinicians doing forensic work can understand this perspective in order to better perform their evaluations and reports. This is an outstanding, creative and thoughtful, yet completely user-friendly volume. --David L. Shapiro, Associate Professor of Psychology, Center for Psychological Studies,Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

About this edition

• Publisher: Professional Resource Exchange
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1568870841
• ISBN 13: 9781568870847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272