Evaluating Competencies: Forensic Assessments and Instruments

by Thomas Grisso

This book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in this second edition are new.

564 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 1986

Reviews

[Anna Elissa]

Jam-packed with critical information that I needed when assisting my professor (a forensic psychiatrist) working on her latest project.