Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry Arena

Offenders, Deviants or Patients? Fourth Edition

Explorations in Clinical Criminology

• By Herschel Prins.

Published June 2010

Offenders, Deviants or Patients? provides a practical approach to understanding both the social context and treatment of mentally disordered offenders. Taking into account the current public concern, often heightened by media sensationalism, it addresses issues such as sex offending, homicide and…
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Treating Personality Disorder

Creating Robust Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs

• Edited by Naomi Murphy, and Des McVey.

Published May 2010

This book considers personality disorders and how they are treated within the institutional context of prisons and hospitals and offers practical guidance on assessment, formulation and integrated treatment planning. Treating Personality Disorder offers contributions from professionals in…
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Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment

• Edited by Randy K. Otto, and Kevin S. Douglas.

Published October 2009

This comprehensive Handbook of original chapters serves as a resource for clinicians and researchers alike. Two introductory chapters cover general issues in violence risk assessment, while the remainder of the book offers a comprehensive discussion of specific risk…
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Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals

in Forensic Settings

• Edited by Steven F Bucky, Joanne E Callan and George Stricker.

Published April 2009

Get crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal system Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal…
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Child Abuse and Neglect

• By Monica L. McCoy, and Stefanie M. Keen.

Published March 2009

Child abuse and neglect are examined in this new book - the latest research, what it entails, and how to recognize and report it. Federal law mandates the reporting of suspected child maltreatment by many professionals. This book will appeal to those who one day find themselves in the role of a…
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Psychiatry in Law / Law in Psychiatry, Second Edition

• By Ralph Slovenko.

Published March 2009

Psychiatry in Law/Law in Psychiatry, 2nd Edition, is a sweeping, up-to-date examination of the infiltration of psychiatry into law and the growing intervention of law into psychiatry. Unmatched in breadth and coverage, and thoroughly updated from the first edition, this comprehensive text and…
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Neuropsychology of Malingering Casebook

• Edited by Joel E. Morgan, and Jerry J. Sweet.

Published November 2008

Clinical neuropsychologists frequently evaluate individuals within a forensic context, and therefore must address questions regarding the possible presence of reduced effort, response bias and/or malingering. This volume offers a wide range of instructive real-world case examples involving the…
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Biosocial Criminology

New Directions in Theory and Research

• Edited by Anthony Walsh, and Kevin M Beaver.

Published September 2008

Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.…
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Sexual Offenders

Personal Construct Theory and Deviant Sexual Behaviour

• By James Horley.

Published April 2008

Is there an alternative way of treating sexual offenders beyond traditional psychiatry? Sexual Offenders explores and develops personal construct theory in terms of forensic and social psychology, and examines the possibilities for sexual offender assessment and therapy. Rather than viewing…
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Violence and Serious Theft

Development and Prediction from Childhood to Adulthood

• Edited by Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Helene Raskin White.

Published February 2008

In this volume, top experts in the field of delinquency discuss the implications of the findings of the Pittsburgh Youth Study for current conceptualizations of antisocial behavior. Violence and Serious Theft is unique in that it combines the strengths of three disciplines to explain delinquency in…
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