Abstract 30 studies comparing competent and incompetent criminal defendants (N= 8,170)
were quantitatively reviewed to identify variables associated with judgments about …

During the past decade, the field of forensic psychological assessment entered a period of
standard setting, reflected in the publication of specialty guidelines for practice and in the …

The present book is appropriate for use as a textbook in personality assessment courses
and as a reference guide for professionals who use the MMPI-2 in research and clinical …

Tens of thousands of readers have relied on this leading text and practitioner reference--
now revised and updated--to understand the issues the legal system most commonly asks …

Most of the literature in forensic mental health assessment is organized around the particular
legal issue that is the focus of a given assessment, tool, or research study. This book starts …

This article identifies and examines 5 conundrums confronting therapeutic jurisprudence. Is
therapeutic jurisprudence distinguishable from other jurisprudences that share its goal of …

Beginning in the 1950s and continuing to the present, clinical and counseling psychologists
have become integral to the provision of assessment and therapeutic services in …

What is the current state of professional practice among child custody evaluators, and how
congruent is current practice with the 1994 American Psychological Association (APA)" …

This article proposes a four‐level model of clinical inferences to analyze the psychological
evaluation process in custody matters. At each level the authors summarize the status of the …

Because the trier of fact determines the weight to be assigned to an examiner's opinion by
assessing the strength and persuasiveness of his or her analysis of the data, it is essential …