Research Catalog

Title

The emotional consequences of personal injury : a handbook for mental health professionals and lawyers / Brian Hoffman ... [et al.].

Publication

Markham, Ont. : Butterworths ; Charlottesville, Va. : LEXIS Pub., c2001.

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Additional Authors

Hoffman, Brian F. (Brian Francis), 1942-

Description

xix, 366 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Personal injuries > Canada > Trial practice
• Damages > Canada > Trial practice
• Forensic psychiatry > Canada
• Liability for emotional distress > Canada
• Traumatism

Note

• Rev. ed. of: The emotional consequences of personal injury / Brian F. Hoffman, Joel P. Rochon, John A. Terry. 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1: Overview of emotional trauma and disability -- Chapter 2: The litigation process -- Chapter 3: Legal principles in the assessment of claims for emotional trauma -- Chapter 4: The lawyer's role -- Chapter 5: The role of mental health professionals -- Chapter 6: The behavioural and emotional consequences of personal injury -- Chapter 7: Common psychiatric diagnoses following personal injury -- Chapter 8: Chronic pain disorders -- Chapter 9: Clinical aspects of closed head injuries -- Chapter 10: Litigation issues of sexual abuse -- Chapter 11: Deception: defensiveness and malingering -- Chapter 12: Mental health and psychiatric assessments of traumatized children -- Chapter 13: Mental health consultations and reports for personal injury litigants -- Chapter 14: Examples of medico-legal reports with comments -- Chapter 15: Preparation of the lawyer and the mental health professional for trial -- Chapter 16: The psychiatrist and other mental health experts in court: examination and cross-examination -- Chapter 17: Damages for emotional injury

ISBN

0433438517

OCLC

48118015

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library