Stay up-to-date on the ethical and legal issues that affect your clinical and professional decisions!Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: A Comprehensive Handbook of Principles and Standards details the ethical and legal issues that involve mental health professionals. Respected authorities with diverse backgrounds, expertise, and professional experience discuss contemporary theories emphasizing professional ethics, the ramifications of professional ac...

Get crucial ethical and clinical knowledge as it relates to the legal systemEthical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals: in Forensic Settings comprehensively focuses on the integration of ethical, legal, and clinical issues for practicing mental health professionals dealing with legal processes in forensic settings. This unique text is organized around the most current ethical and legal standards as defined by the mental health professionals of psychology, soc...

Jane had a pretty good life. She was a single mother, and she worked hard for her three kids, who meant the world to her. One autumn evening she met someone she believed to be the man of her dreamsthe only thing missing in her nearly perfect life. He was handsome, gentle, quiet, and kind.Eleven months later, they bought a home and were married. Jane was so happy. Soon, however, her daughter, Michelle, began to change; she became distant and withdrawn. Something was wrong, but Jane ...

Praise for Crime Classification Manual"The very first book by and for criminal justice professionals in the major case fields. . . . The skills, techniques, and proactive approaches offered are creatively concrete and worthy of replication across the country. . . . Heartily recommended for those working in the 'front line' of major case investigation."-John B. Rabun Jr., ACSW, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, National Center for Missing and Expl...

If you are one of the individuals that is seeking health and wellness on not just the physical level but the mental as well, you need to read "Mental Strength & Positive Attitude: 7 Core Lessons For Achieving Peak Performance In Life." This text gets right to the point and explains the best techniques that can be used to improve mental performance. The author has gone to great lengths to make the text as easy to understand as he possibly can and he also has put his own seal of approval of ...

The disturbing, forgotten history of America’s experiment with eugenics.In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of men and women were sterilized at asylums and prisons across America. Believing that criminality and mental illness were inherited, state legislatures passed laws calling for the sterilization of “habitual criminals” and the “feebleminded.” But in 1936, inmates at Oklahoma’s McAlester prison refused to cooperate; a man named Jack Skinner was the first to come...

IN A SEQUEL to his highly-acclaimed debut novel, Upcountry, R.M. Doyon returns his readers to Upstate New York and the tragic lives of the Schumacher family. It is a sultry Labor Day weekend in 2010 and the clan is gathering at a large lake in the shadows of the Adirondacks to celebrate a milestone in Hubie Schumacher’s life—and to bring some closure to the events of that fateful Thanksgiving nearly four years before.Upcountry readers will recogni...

This rigorous yet reader-friendly book reviews the state of the science on a broad range of psychological issues commonly encountered in the forensic context. The goal is to help professionals and students differentiate between supported and unsupported psychological techniques--and steer clear of those that may be misleading or legally inadmissible. Leading contributors focus on controversial issues surrounding recovered memories, projective techniques, lie detection, child witnesses, off...

Norah Shariff’s autobiography is likely to cause some turmoil as she takes the reader into a harsh world created by her immediate family; a world filled with obstacles preventing her from gaining precious freedom. Norah is brought up in a living nightmare, created by her father’s abuse and violence, her grandparents’ strict religious precepts, and an oppressive religious system. Although a victim herself, Norah is unyieldingly supportive to the point of being overprotective of her mother w...

Treatment of High-Risk Sexual Offenders addresses concrete management strategies, from initial intake to community treatment programs, and describes a detailed program for high risk offenders which has been developed, tested and refined for over 15 years.Provides a thorough review of contemporary theory and research relating to complex, challenging populations, and translates it into a comprehensive system of assessment and treatment for high risk sexual offenders

This book is intended to be a love story between a child and a woman that loved her unconditionally, and it was because of that love that she was able to break the chain of child abuse. You hear every day that abuse is continued from generation to generation. But it can be stopped and not perpetuatedall it takes is love. There are parts that may be difficult to read for some, but it just reinforces that anything is possible with love. Its easy to blame abusers, but more often than not, its...

The first handbook to explore forensic assessment from psychiatric and psychological perspectives"The editors have assembled a magnificent collaboration between psychiatrists and psychologists to bring forth critical knowledge and insight to the core competency of forensic assessment. This handbook is essential reading and a comprehensive resource for both newly minted and seasoned forensic practitioners."—Robert I. Simon, MD, Director, Prog...