Book Description
Mental health professionals are often called on to give evidence or expert testimony in a range of circumstances, including family law and child welfare trials, mental health hearings, malpractice lawsuits, criminal trials, government hearings, and private arbitration. This volume provides practical information and proven guidelines to help clinicians from any background understand their role in legal proceedings
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Review
"This extremely user-friendly book, written by a lawyer and mediator and a psychologist, takes the readers by the hand and carries them through the legal process, "translating" legalese into clear English and demystifying what otherwise constitutes for many professionals a rather dreaded experience. Highly recommended."--American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
"Barsky and Gould's text offers a number of excellent strategies for clinicians who suddenly find themselves having to report for some type of court action, be it a subpoena or deposition, or even a civil action that is brought against the clinician him-or herself. Seasoned mental health professionals, one of whom also has a law degree, these authors get straight to the point with respect to what one needs to know about the entire legal arena....The book does a nice job of summing up the legal processes and the various ways in which clinicians may be called to court. It covers areas such as pretrial processes, which include motion disclosures in many trials, preliminary inquiries, pretrial settlement conferences, and so on. Attention is also given to attorney-led negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations. Throughout, the text provides definitions of relevant terms that belong to the vocabulary of the legal system but are usually not familiar to mental health professionals....This book is written in an easy-to-read style, which is not overwhelmed by hard-to-remember legal terminology, but still manages to impart a huge amount of information in its 256 pages. Well-conceived and executed, Barsky and Gould's contribution is definitely recommended as part of a non-forensic clinician's library."--The Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly
--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
"Barsky and Gould's text offers a number of excellent strategies for clinicians who suddenly find themselves having to report for some type of court action, be it a subpoena or deposition, or even a civil action that is brought against the clinician him-or herself. Seasoned mental health professionals, one of whom also has a law degree, these authors get straight to the point with respect to what one needs to know about the entire legal arena....The book does a nice job of summing up the legal processes and the various ways in which clinicians may be called to court. It covers areas such as pretrial processes, which include motion disclosures in many trials, preliminary inquiries, pretrial settlement conferences, and so on. Attention is also given to attorney-led negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations. Throughout, the text provides definitions of relevant terms that belong to the vocabulary of the legal system but are usually not familiar to mental health professionals....This book is written in an easy-to-read style, which is not overwhelmed by hard-to-remember legal terminology, but still manages to impart a huge amount of information in its 256 pages. Well-conceived and executed, Barsky and Gould's contribution is definitely recommended as part of a non-forensic clinician's library."--The Pennsylvania Psychologist Quarterly
--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
