The Best Mental Health Law Books 2024

1. Pre-Owned Hermann's Mental Health and Disability Law in a Nutshell (Paperback) 0314065466 9780314065469

Expert coverage deals with civil commitment, as well as hearings to determine fitness for trial or execution. Examines criminal defenses and sentencing as they relate to the mental capacity of defendants. Overviews categories of mental health professionals, including the scope of their work, liscensing, and discipline. Discusses the major psychiatric disorders. Clinical psychiatric evidence is examined, including a review of admissibility of evidence, qualifying experts, and establishing a basis for clinical opinion. Medical malpractice and negligence are also examined.

Title: Hermann's Mental Health and Disability Law in a Nutshell ISBN10: 0314065466 EAN: 9780314065469 Author: Hermann, Donald H.; Hermann CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

2. Pre-Owned Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill (Paperback) 0029153816 9780029153819

De-institutionalization has been criticized for putting hundreds of mentally ill people on the streets. This book examines the social and political causes of de-institutionalization - the tendency in the 1960s to see the mentally ill as merely different, and hostility to institutional oppression.

Title: Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill Book Format: Unabridged ISBN10: 0029153816 EAN: 9780029153819 Genre: PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health Author: Isaac, Rael Jean CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

3. Pre-Owned The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System (Paperback) 1611630398 9781611630398

The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System by Slate, Risdon N.

Title: The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System ISBN10: 1611630398 EAN: 9781611630398 Author: Slate, Risdon N. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

4. Pre-Owned Moral Judgement: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? (Hardcover) 0465036244 9780465036240

In Moral Judgment, James Q. Wilson demonstrates how our judicial system has compromised its obligation to discriminate between right and wrong. Citing highly publicized verdicts, he makes an erudite case for re-examining the ethical drift of contemporary jurisprudence. Today's headlines he claims, are proof that our judicial system relentlessly subjects itself to forces that limit its capacity to resolve even the gravest moral issues: judging guilt or innocence in the most grievous capital crimes.Moral Judgment provides a much needed antidote to these ambiguities, and a triumph for one of our most admired ethical scholars.

Title: Moral Judgement: Does the Abuse Excuse Threaten Our Legal System? ISBN10: 0465036244 EAN: 9780465036240 Author: Wilson, James Q. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

5. Psychology and Law for the Helping Professions (Hardcover - Used) 053434285X 9780534342852

In his prepublication reviews, Dempster said, "Swenson not only discusses how the system opperates, he gives ver plausible and undertandable reasons why it operates the way it does. He succeeds in demystifying the legal world and summarizing its history in an understandable format. . . . Books like Swenson's help level the playing field for mental health professionals who all to often have felt victimized by the court process and have misunderstood the legal process of 'truth finding.'" In this Second Edition of his comprehensive, well respected text, Swenson emphasizes what people in the helping professions need to know about the law so they can avoid, as he puts it, the "land mines" and understand how their treatment decisions are likely to have legal consequences.

Title: Psychology and Law for the Helping Professions ISBN10: 053434285X EAN: 9780534342852 Author: Swenson, Leland C.; Swenson CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

6. Pre-Owned Butterfly in the Rain: The 1927 Abduction and Murder of Marion Parker (Hardcover) 1442251190 9781442251199

On December 17, 1927 in Los Angeles, twelve year old Marion Parker, daughter of a prominent banker, was called to the school office where a stranger told her that her father had been in an accident and that she must leave with him right away. Fewer than 48 hours later, she was dead. What started as a tragic, but otherwise ordinary, kidnapping turned out to be a shocking murder by one of the period's most twisted killers, William Edward Hickman. James L. Neibaur takes a step into history, depicting how this abduction was soon labeled the "crime of the century" and sparked a change in the nation's attention to such cases. With a media-driven nationwide manhunt, one of the biggest and most wide-ranging in California history, and then a desperate attempt at sparing the killer's life with the unfamiliar insanity plea, this infamous case left the abduction and murder of Marion Parker to be etched into 1920s pop culture. The murder of Marion Parker brought to light the unthinkable reality of child abduction. Neibaur resourcefully weaves together the events surrounding the crime in the context of the contemporary culture and attitudes of the late 1920s, covering the impact of the media's first involvement in a criminal justice case, and how the admired notions of the glamorized '20s were crushed by this ordinary family's chilling reality.

Title: Butterfly in the Rain: The 1927 Abduction and Murder of Marion Parker Book Format: Hardcover ISBN10: 1442251190 EAN: 9781442251199 Genre: TRUE CRIME / Murder / General Author: Neibaur, James L. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

7. Pre-Owned The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England (Hardcover) 1780749600 9781780749600

A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no madman. Behind closed doors, though, Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed, asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets and was obsessed with attending funerals. After he'd lived this way for years, in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared insane. Still reeling from the madness of King George, society could not tear itself away from what would become the longest, costliest and most controversial insanity trial in British history.

Title: The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England Book Format: Hardcover ISBN10: 1780749600 EAN: 9781780749600 Genre: PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health Author: Foyster, Elizabeth CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

8. Pre-Owned The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis & Opportunity for the Justice System (Hardcover) 1594602689 9781594602689

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Title: The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis & Opportunity for the Justice System ISBN10: 1594602689 EAN: 9781594602689 Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology Author: Slate, Risdon N. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

9. Pre-Owned Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology (Hardcover) 019518176X 9780195181760

In recent years, the public has become increasingly fascinated with the criminal mind. Television series centered on courtroom trials, criminal investigations, and forensic psychology are more popular than ever. More and more people are interested in the American system of justice and the individuals who experience it firsthand. Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology gives you an inside view of 20 of the highest profile legal cases of the last 50 years. Drs. Ewing and McCann take you "behind the scenes" of each of these cases, some involving celebrities like Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst, and explain the impact they had on the fields of psychology and the law. Many of the cases in this book, whether involving a celebrity client or an ordinary person in an extraordinary circumstance, were determined in part by the expert testimony of a psychologist or other mental health professional. Psychology has always played a vital role in so many aspects of the American legal system, and these fascinating trials offer insight into many intriguing psychological issues. In addition to expert testimony, some of the issues discussed in this entertaining and educational book include the insanity defense, brainwashing, criminal profiling, capital punishment, child custody, juvenile delinquency, and false confessions. In Minds on Trial, the authors skillfully convey the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. Mental health and legal professionals, as well as others with an interest in psychology and the law will have a hard time putting this scholarly, yet readable book down.

Title: Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology Book Format: Hardcover ISBN10: 019518176X EAN: 9780195181760 Author: Ewing, Charles Patrick; McCann, Joseph T. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

10. The Physical Therapist's Business Practice and Legal Guide, (Paperback)

As the profession of physical therapy continues its growth toward autonomous practice, the physical therapist, physical therapist assistant and student are going to face liability risks and exposure like never before. Physical Therapist's Business Practice and Legal Guide provides the tools needed to integrate risk management practices into the daily patient care routine. Each chapter includes key concepts and discussion questions. Specific cases are also discussed to explain and support legal concepts and how these set the stage for future risks exposure.

The Physical Therapist's Business Practice and Legal Guide, (Paperback) Author: Sheila K Nicholson ISBN: 9780763740696 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2007-10-01 Page Count: 399