Synopses & Reviews
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines. This series presents up-to-date information on the most important and frequently conducted forms of FMHA. The 19 topical volumes address best approaches to practice for particular types of evaluation in the criminal, civil, and juvenile/family areas. Each volume contains a thorough discussion of the relevant legal and psychological concepts, followed by a step-by-step description of the assessment process from preparing for the evaluation to writing the report and testifying in court.
Volumes include the following helpful features:
· Boxes that zero in on important information for use in evaluations
· Tips for best practice and cautions against common pitfalls
· Highlighting of relevant case law and statutes
· Separate list of assessment tools for easy reference
· Helpful glossary of key terms for the particular topic
In making recommendations for best practice, authors consider empirical support, legal relevance, and consistency with ethical and professional standards. These volumes offer invaluable guidance for anyone involved in conducting or using forensic evaluations. Patients provide valid informed consent to a treatment or a diagnostic procedure if they have sufficient capacity, have been given appropriate information, and give consent freely without coercion or undue influence. When a patient's capacity for treatment consent is in doubt, a clinician must determine whether the patient indeed has the capacity. This book provides clear, step-by-step information on the evaluation procedure for capacity to consent to both treatment and research.
Review
"This is an excellent and important book addressing the issue of capacity to consent to treatment and research. Every physician and researcher needs to know the information contained in this very useful book."--Doody's
"...Kim punctuates the book with interesting examples, important case law citations, useful tables and figures, and clear parsing of otherwise complex topics...Readers will find the book clearly written, well organized, and highly useful in many circumstances." --PsycCritiques
"Evaluation of Capacity to Consent to Treatment and Research is an extraordinarily insightful guide to the problems and solutions of evaluating the consent capacity of patients and potential clinical trial subjects. The small size of the volume suggests a quick read, but the content is so consistently fascinating than any intent to speed through the text is quickly forgotten." --Norman M. Goldfarb is Managing Director of First Clinical Research LLC, a provider of clinical research best practices information, consulting and training services
About the Author
Scott Kim is Associate Professor of psychiatry, Investigator, Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, and Core Faculty member, Department of Bioethics, University of Michigan Medical School.
Table of Contents
PART 1: FOUNDATION
Chapter 1: The Legal Context
Chapter 2: Forensic Mental Health Concepts
Chapter 3: Empirical Foundations and Limits
PART 2: APPLICATION
Chapter 4: Preparation for the Evaluation
Chapter 5: Data Collection - The Patient Interview
Chapter 6: Interpretation
Chapter 7: After the Assessment
Chapter 8: Capacity to Consent to Research