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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: How to Use This Book | |
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| Improving the Accessibility of Legal Information | |
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| Purpose of This Book | |
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| Organization and Content of This Book | |
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| Business Matters Affecting Practice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Legal Credentialing and Privileges to Practice | |
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| Licensure of Mental Health Professionals | |
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| Unlicensed Mental Health Professionals | |
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| Sunset of Credentialing Agencies and Regulations | |
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| Hospital, Staff, and Administrative Privileges | |
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| Supervisory Relationship | |
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| Initiating Services | |
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| Informed Consent to Services | |
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| Informed Consent to Services for a Minor | |
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| Fees, Billing, and Collection Arrangements | |
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| Insurance Reimbursement for Service | |
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| Maintaining and Disclosing Information | |
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| Extensiveness, Ownership, Maintenance, and Access to Records | |
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| Confidential Relations and Communications | |
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| Confidentiality When the Patient Is a Minor | |
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| Privileged Communications | |
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| Protecting Third Parties From Dangerous People | |
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| Reporting Past Criminal Activity | |
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| Reporting Ongoing or Planned Criminal Activity | |
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| Confidentiality With HIV-Positive Patients | |
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| Reporting Child Abuse | |
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| Reporting Adult Abuse | |
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| Reporting Unprofessional Conduct by Other Practitioners | |
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| Subpoena, Search, and Seizure | |
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| Peer Review Activities | |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act | |
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| Liabilities for Professional Activities | |
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| Malpractice Liability | |
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| Liability for Nonconsensual Treatment | |
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| Liability for Breaching a Duty to a Third Party | |
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| Other Forms of Civil Liability | |
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| Criminal Liability | |
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| Complaints Before State Licensure Boards and National and State Professional Ethics Committees | |
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| Liability of Credentialing Boards and Ethics Committees | |
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| Mental Health Services Related to Individuals, Families, the State, and the Workplace | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Competency Determinations | |
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| Competency to Obtain a Driver's License | |
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| Competency to Vote | |
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| Competency to Testify | |
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| Competency to Marry | |
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| Competency to Sign a Will | |
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| Guardianship for Adults | |
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| Conservatorship for Adults | |
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| Minors' Competency to Consent to an Abortion | |
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| Child Care and Protection | |
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| Guardianship for Minors | |
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| Conservatorship for Minors | |
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| Foster Care | |
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| Adoption | |
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| Abused and Neglected Children | |
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| Termination of Parental Rights | |
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| Education of Children | |
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| Education for Gifted and Talented Children | |
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| Education for Children With Disabilities or Handicaps | |
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| Marriage Dissolution and Child Custody | |
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| Annulment | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Child Custody After Marital Dissolution | |
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| Juvenile Offenders Before the Court | |
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| Juvenile Court and the Justice Process | |
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| Competency of Juveniles to Stand Trial | |
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| Nonresponsibility Defense in Juvenile Proceedings | |
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| Transfer of Juveniles to Stand Trial as Adults | |
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| State Interventions and Services for Individuals With Special Needs | |
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| People With Mental Illness | |
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| People With Alcoholism | |
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| People With Substance Abuse Problems | |
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| People With Developmental Disabilities | |
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| Victims of Domestic Violence | |
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| Victims of Other Crimes | |
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| Violent Sexual Offenders | |
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| People in Jail or Prison | |
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| People Who Are Dying | |
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| Law Enforcement | |
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| Screening of Police Officers | |
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| Profiling of Criminal Suspects | |
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| Pretrial Matters in Criminal and Civil Litigation | |
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| Competency to Waive the Rights to Silence, Counsel, and a Jury | |
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| Precharging Evaluations | |
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| Bail Determinations | |
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| Competency to Stand Trial | |
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| Trial Matters in Criminal and Civil Litigation | |
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| Jury Selection and Trial Consulting | |
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| Expert Witnesses | |
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| Competency to Testify | |
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| Provocation | |
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| Culpable Mental State (Mens Rea) | |
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| Diminished Capacity | |
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| Criminal Responsibility | |
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| Polygraph Evidence | |
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| Psychological Autopsy | |
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| Emotional Propensity to Sexual Misconduct | |
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| Battered Woman's Syndrome | |
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| Rape Trauma Syndrome | |
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| Child Abuse Syndromes | |
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| Hypnosis of Witnesses | |
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| Eyewitness Identification | |
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| Pornography | |
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| Emotional Distress and Civil Liability | |
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| Civil Liability of People With Mental Illness and Wrongdoers Who Are Legally Incompetent | |
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| Posttrial Criminal Matters | |
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| Competency to Be Sentenced | |
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| Sentencing | |
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| Probation | |
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| Competency to Serve a Sentence | |
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| Parole Determinations | |
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| Competency to Be Executed | |
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| Workplace-Related Services | |
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| Mental Status of Licensed Professionals | |
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| Competency to Contract | |
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| Workers' Compensation and Insurance | |
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| Vocational Disability Services | |
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| Unfair Competition and Trademark Infringement | |
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| Sexual Harassment | |
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| Employment Discrimination | |
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| Violence in the Workplace | |
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| Conclusion: Taking the Next Step | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |