Research Catalog

Title

Psychological injuries : forensic assessment, treatment, and law / William J. Koch ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Koch, William J., 1951-

Description

ix, 318 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Integrating the history of psychological injuries both from legal and mental health perspectives, this book offers compelling discussions of relevant statutory and case law. Focusing especially on posttraumatic stress disorder, it addresses the current status and empirical limitations of forensic assessments of psychological injuries and alerts readers to common vulnerabilities in expert evidence from mental health professionals. In addition, it also uses the latest empirical research to provide the best forensic methods for assessing both clinical conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder and for alternative explanations such as malingering.
• The authors offer state-of-the-art information on early intervention, psychological therapies, and pharmaceutical treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder and stimulating suggestions for further research. A comprehensive guide to this complex phenomenon, this book will be an indispensable resource for all mental health practitioners, researchers, and legal professionals who work with psychological injuries."--Jacket.

Series Statement

American Psychology-Law Society series

Uniform Title

American Psychology-Law Society series

Subject

• Liability for emotional distress > United States
• Personal injuries > United States
• Forensic psychology > United States
• Traumatic neuroses > Treatment > United States
• Stress Disorders, Traumatic
• Stress, Psychological
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Liability, Legal

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Definition and history of the concept of psychological injury -- Legal contexts and law related to psychological injuries -- General assessment issues with psychological injuries -- Detecting exaggeration and malingering in psychological injury claims / Grant L. Iverson and Rael T. Lange -- Common vulnerabilities in psychological evidence -- Gender, trauma, and distress -- Ethnocultural minorities -- Prevention and rehabilitation of psychological injuries -- Psychological injury cases -- Current status and future trends.

ISBN

• 0195188284
• 9780195188288

LCCN

^^2005003877

OCLC

• 57652295
• SCSB-9884864

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library