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Title
Evaluating fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the forensic context : a manual for mental health practice / Natalie Novick Brown, editor.
ISBN
9783030736286 (electronic bk.)
3030736288 (electronic bk.)
303073627X
9783030736279
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-73628-6 doi
Call Number
RA1053
Dewey Decimal Classification
614/.1
Summary
This book is intended for medical and mental health clinicians faced with the challenge of evaluating adolescents and adults in the legal context who may have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Luminaries in their respective fields, the contributors to this book offer a range of expertise and perspectives regarding the forensic investigation of FASD: medical, psychological, psychiatric, criminal defense, prosecution, and the judiciary. The primary goal of the book is to provide medical and mental health clinicians with practical procedures that can be used in a variety of forensic and clinical settings. It includes protocols that have been used successfully in legal matters ranging from rights waiver and competency to capital murder and sexual offending. It not only provides detailed guidelines for interviewing birth mothers about the delicate topic of substance use during pregnancy but also introduces a methodology that can be used in the absence of exposure confirmation to arrive at a sound diagnostic conclusion through the process of differential diagnosis. Taken as a whole, the methodological procedures described by the contributors to the book serve as best practices for comprehensive forensic mental health evaluation of potential FASD in juveniles and adult defendants as well as in victims.
Note
Includes index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 7, 2021).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030736279
1. Diagnostic history: Prenatal exposure to alcohol and other teratogens
2. Relevance of FASD in the Forensic Context
3. Prevalence and screening
4. Confirming prenatal exposure(s)
5. Neuropsychological assessment in adults
6. Neuropsychological assessment in adolescents
7. Medical examination and differential diagnosis
8. Neuroimaging in FASD
9. 'Connecting the dots': Assessing lifelong adaptive behavior history
10. Comorbidity
11. FASD and ID equivalence
12. Juvenile justice evaluations
13. Sexual offender evaluations
14. Evaluating competency
15. Medicating FASD in the forensic context
16. Vulnerable victims with FASD
17. View form the bench: FASD in the courtroom.
