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Research article summary:
Principles of forensic mental health assessment: implications for the forensic assessment of sexual offenders.
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Risk assessment with sexual offenders is generally performed for two purposes: to assist the court in deciding on a relevant legal question (in a legal context), or to plan treatment interventions (in a clinical context). Failure to make this ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2003Jun
in Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci
(Language : eng)
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2003 Jun;989():167-84; discussion 236-46
Principles of forensic mental health assessment: implications for the forensic assessment of sexual offenders.
Heilbrun K
Department of Psychology, Drexel University, and Villanova School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-1192, USA. Kirk.Heilbrun@drexel.edu
Risk assessment with sexual offenders is generally performed for two purposes: to assist the court in deciding on a relevant legal question (in a legal context), or to plan treatment interventions (in a clinical context). Failure to make this distinction, and to accurately identify the context and purpose for which the assessment is being conducted, can result in significant problems. This chapter will begin by making this distinction. Then, focusing on evaluations done for legal decision making purposes, it will describe 29 recently derived broad principles of forensic mental health assessment and their application to evaluations done to assist legal decision making.
PMID : 12839897 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| Kirk | Heilbrun | K |
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Drexel University, and Villanova School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-1192, USA. Kirk.Heilbrun@drexel.edu
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Category links from this article:- Decision Making
- Forensic Psychiatry - legislation & jurisprudence, methods
- Guidelines as Topic
- Humans
- Mental Disorders - diagnosis, psychology
- Sex Offenses - psychology
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