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| Advances in Assessments for Legal Competencies | |
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| Legal Competencies | |
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| Legal Competencies in the Criminal Process | |
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| Legal Competencies in Civil Cases | |
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| Summary | |
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| Improving Evaluations for Legal Competencies: How Far Have We Come? | |
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| Ignorance and Irrelevance | |
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| Intrusion | |
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| Insufficiency and Incredibility | |
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| The Value of a Conceptual Model | |
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| Legally Relevant Assessments for Legal Competencies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Five Components of Legal Competencies | |
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| Functional Component | |
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| Causal Component | |
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| Interactive Component | |
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| Judgmental and Dispositional Components | |
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| Summary | |
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| Empirical Assessments for Legal Competencies | |
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| Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Objectives of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| The Need for Evaluation of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Standards for Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Conceptual Basis: Defining Legally Relevant Functional Abilities | |
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| Psychometric Development | |
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| Construct Validation | |
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| Predictive or Classificatory Utility | |
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| Potential for Expressing Person-Situation Congruency | |
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| Orientation to the Instrument Reviews | |
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| Discovery and Selection of the Instruments | |
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| Purposes and Outline of the Review Chapters | |
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| Competence to Stand Trial | |
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| The Competence Question | |
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| Law and Current Practice | |
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| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | |
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| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA) | |
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| Fitness Interview Test--Revised (FIT-R) | |
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| Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (CAST-MR) | |
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| Georgia Court Competence Test--Mississippi State Hospital (GCCT-MSH) | |
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| Competence to Stand Trial Assessment Instrument (CAI) | |
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| Competence Screening Test (CST) | |
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| Current Status of The Field | |
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| Research Directions | |
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| Clinical Application | |
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| Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel | |
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| The Competence Question | |
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| Law and Current Practice | |
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| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | |
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| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Comprehension of Miranda Rights (CMR) | |
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| Comprehension of Miranda Rights--Recognition (CMR-R) | |
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| Comprehension of Miranda Vocabulary (CMV) | |
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| Function of Rights in Interrogation (FRI) | |
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| Current Status of the Field | |
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| Research Directions | |
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| Clinical Application | |
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| Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity | |
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| The Competence Question | |
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| Law and Current Practice | |
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| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | |
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| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Mental State at the Time of the Offense Screening Evaluation (MSE) | |
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| Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales (R-CRAS) | |
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| Current Status of the Field | |
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| Research Directions | |
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| Clinical Application | |
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| Parenting Capacity | |
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| The Competence Question | |
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| Abuse, Neglect, and Termination of Parental Rights | |
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| Divorce and Custody | |
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| Law and Current Practice | |
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| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | |
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| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Ackerman-Schoendorf Scales for Parent Evaluation of Custody (ASPECT) | |
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| Bricklin Perceptual Scales (BPS) | |
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| Perception of Relationships Test (PORT) | |
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| Parent Awareness Skills Survey (PASS) and Parent Perception of Child Profile (PPCP) | |
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| Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI) | |
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| Parenting Stress Index (PSI) | |
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| Parent-Child Relationship Inventory (PCRI) | |
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| Current Status of the Field | |
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| Research Directions | |
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| Clinical Application | |
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| Guardianship and Conservatorship | |
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| The Competence Question | |
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| Law and Current Practice | |
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| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | |
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| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| IADL Instruments Based on Interview or Observation | |
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| Adult Functional Adaptive Behavior Scale (AFABS) | |
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| Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (MFAQ) | |
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| Philadelphia Geriatric Center Multilevel Assessment Inventory (MAI) | |
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| Performance Based Instruments to Assess IADL's | |
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| Direct Assessment of Functional Status (DAFS) | |
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| Everyday Problems Test (EPT) | |
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| Performance Based Instruments to Assess Need for Guardian or Conservator | |
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| Decisionmaking Instrument for Guardianship (DIG) | |
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| Financial Capacity Instrument (FCI) | |
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| Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview (HCAI) | |
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| Independent Living Scales (ILS) | |
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| Current Status of the Field | |
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| Research Directions | |
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| Clinical Application | |
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| Competence to Consent to Treatment | |
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| The Competence Question | |
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| Law and Current Practice | |
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| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | |
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| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Capacity to Consent to Treatment Instrument (CCTI) | |
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| Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview (HCAI) | |
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| Hopkins Competency Assessment Test (HCAT) | |
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| MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T) | |
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| MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR) | |
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| Understanding Treatment Disclosures (UTD) | |
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| Perceptions of Disorder (POD) | |
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| Thinking Rationally about Treatment (TRAT) | |
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| Psychometric Development | |
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| Current Status of the Field | |
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| Research Directions | |
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| Clinical Application | |
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| Developing and Using Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Developing Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Functional Component | |
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| Causal Component | |
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| Interactive Component | |
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| Judgmental and Dispositional Components | |
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| Using Forensic Assessment Instruments | |
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| Forming the Question | |
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| Selecting Assessment Methods | |
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| Describing Functional Abilities | |
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| Explaining Functional Deficits | |
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| Making Predictions or Postdictions | |
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| Stating Conclusions | |
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| A Note on Potential Misuse of FAIs | |
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| Continuing the Improvement of Forensic Assessments | |
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| The Conceptual Model | |
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| The Future of FAIs | |
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| References | |
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| Legal Citations | |
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| Subject Index | |