Download Violence and Mental Disorder: Developments in Risk Assessment (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development) epub

Monahan & Steadman have provided a comprehensive, emperically based book on one of the most constroversial areas in forensic psychology: the process by which the mentally ill are determined to be "dangerous" in the future. As former critics of this area "Risk Assessment", the authors re-evlaute the reliability and validity of risk assessment methods understanding that such assessments are a fact of life and are used dozens of times every day in this country. By far, this book is the best book out there on this subject.

Developments in Risk Assessment In courts across the country, judges depend on mental health experts to. .

Developments in Risk Assessment. But experts’ ability to predict violence is severely limited, and they are wrong as often as they are right.

Essential for all those who are interested in the study of risk assessment of violence.

But experts' ability to predict violence is severely limited, and they are wrong as often as they are right. Essential for all those who are interested in the study of risk assessment of violence.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Program on human and community development. Network on Mental Health and the Law. Objectives. Mental health law has undergone major developments in recent years, including landmark judicial decisions, dramatic legislative initiatives, and the publication of professional stan-dards and guidelines. All of these developments, however, have been predicated on untested assumptions about the mentally ill, the service delivery system, and the law.

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John Monahan, Henry J. Steadman "Essential for all those who are interested in the study of risk assessment o. Steadman. But experts' ability to predict violence is severely limited, and they are wrong as often as they are right. For the clinician who must make violence assessments it is important reading as well. -Stewart Levine, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

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