Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments,9780306473449

Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780306473449
ISBN10: 0306473445
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): SPRINGER - VERLAG
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Advances in Assessments for Legal Competencies
1(20)
Legal Competencies
2(8)
Legal Competencies in the Criminal Process
3(4)
Legal Competencies in Civil Cases
7(2)
Summary
9(1)
Improving Evaluations for Legal Competencies: How Far Have We Come?
10(9)
Ignorance and Irrelevance
12(3)
Intrusion
15(2)
Insufficiency and Incredibility
17(2)
The Value of a Conceptual Model
19(2)
Legally Relevant Assessments for Legal Competencies
21(20)
Introduction
22(1)
Five Components of Legal Competencies
23(16)
Functional Component
23(6)
Causal Component
29(3)
Interactive Component
32(4)
Judgmental and Dispositional Components
36(3)
Summary
39(2)
Empirical Assessments for Legal Competencies
41(28)
Forensic Assessment Instruments
42(7)
Objectives of Forensic Assessment Instruments
43(4)
The Need for Evaluation of Forensic Assessment Instruments
47(2)
Standards for Forensic Assessment Instruments
49(15)
Conceptual Basis: Defining Legally Relevant Functional Abilities
50(5)
Psychometric Development
55(4)
Construct Validation
59(2)
Predictive or Classificatory Utility
61(2)
Potential for Expressing Person-Situation Congruency
63(1)
Orientation to the Instrument Reviews
64(5)
Discovery and Selection of the Instruments
64(1)
Purposes and Outline of the Review Chapters
65(4)
Competence to Stand Trial
69(80)
The Competence Question
69(20)
Law and Current Practice
70(12)
From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment
82(7)
Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments
89(50)
MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA)
90(11)
Fitness Interview Test---Revised (FIT-R)
101(7)
Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (CAST-MR)
108(7)
Georgia Court Competence Test---Mississippi State Hospital (GCCT-MSH)
115(6)
Competence to Stand Trial Assessment Instrument (CAI)
121(9)
Competence Screening Test (CST)
130(9)
Current Status of The Field
139(10)
Research Directions
139(6)
Clinical Application
145(4)
Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel
149(44)
The Competence Question
149(14)
Law and Current Practice
150(7)
From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment
157(6)
Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments
163(23)
Comprehension of Miranda Rights (CMR)
164(9)
Comprehension of Miranda Rights---Recognition (CMR-R)
173(4)
Comprehension of Miranda Vocabulary (CMV)
177(4)
Function of Rights in Interrogation (FRI)
181(5)
Current Status of the Field
186(7)
Research Directions
187(3)
Clinical Application
190(3)
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
193(36)
Randy Borum
The Competence Question
193(16)
Law and Current Practice
195(8)
From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment
203(6)
Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments
209(14)
Mental State at the Time of the Offense Screening Evaluation (MSE)
209(7)
Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales (R-CRAS)
216(7)
Current Status of the Field
223(6)
Research Directions
223(2)
Clinical Application
225(4)
Parenting Capacity
229(80)
Randy K. Otto
John F. Edens
The Competence Question
229(29)
Abuse, Neglect, and Termination of Parental Rights
230(1)
Divorce and Custody
231(1)
Law and Current Practice
232(18)
From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment
250(8)
Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments
258(43)
Ackerman-Schoendorf Scales for Parent Evaluation of Custody (ASPECT)
258(10)
Bricklin Perceptual Scales (BPS)
268(6)
Perception of Relationships Test (PORT)
274(4)
Parent Awareness Skills Survey (PASS) and Parent Perception of Child Profile (PPCP)
278(3)
Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI)
281(11)
Parenting Stress Index (PSI)
292(6)
Parent-Child Relationship Inventory (PCRI)
298(3)
Current Status of the Field
301(8)
Research Directions
301(5)
Clinical Application
306(3)
Guardianship and Conservatorship
309(82)
Jennifer Moye
The Competence Question
309(22)
Law and Current Practice
313(9)
From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment
322(9)
Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments
331(3)
IADL Instruments Based on Interview or Observation
334(18)
Adult Functional Adaptive Behavior Scale (AFABS)
334(4)
Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (MFAQ)
338(8)
Philadelphia Geriatric Center Multilevel Assessment Inventory (MAI)
346(6)
Performance Based Instruments to Assess IADL's
352(7)
Direct Assessment of Functional Status (DAFS)
352(5)
Everyday Problems Test (EPT)
357(2)
Performance Based Instruments to Assess Need for Guardian or Conservator
359(19)
Decisionmaking Instrument for Guardianship (DIG)
359(4)
Financial Capacity Instrument (FCI)
363(4)
Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview (HCAI)
367(2)
Independent Living Scales (ILS)
369(9)
Current Status of the Field
378(13)
Research Directions
378(9)
Clinical Application
387(4)
Competence to Consent to Treatment
391(70)
The Competence Question
391(13)
Law and Current Practice
393(5)
From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment
398(6)
Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments
404(49)
Capacity to Consent to Treatment Instrument (CCTI)
405(7)
Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview (HCAI)
412(4)
Hopkins Competency Assessment Test (HCAT)
416(5)
MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T)
421(8)
MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR)
429(6)
Understanding Treatment Disclosures (UTD)
435(5)
Perceptions of Disorder (POD)
440(7)
Thinking Rationally about Treatment (TRAT)
447(3)
Psychometric Development
450(3)
Current Status of the Field
453(8)
Research Directions
453(5)
Clinical Application
458(3)
Developing and Using Forensic Assessment Instruments
461(22)
Developing Forensic Assessment Instruments
462(11)
Functional Component
462(7)
Causal Component
469(2)
Interactive Component
471(1)
Judgmental and Dispositional Components
472(1)
Using Forensic Assessment Instruments
473(6)
Forming the Question
474(1)
Selecting Assessment Methods
474(1)
Describing Functional Abilities
475(1)
Explaining Functional Deficits
476(1)
Making Predictions or Postdictions
477(1)
Stating Conclusions
477(1)
A Note on Potential Misuse of FAIs
478(1)
Continuing the Improvement of Forensic Assessments
479(4)
The Conceptual Model
479(1)
The Future of FAIs
480(3)
References 483(32)
Legal Citations 515(4)
Subject Index 519

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