How to examine mental health experts : a family lawyer's handbook of issues and strategies /
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| Author / Creator: | Zervopoulos, John A. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Section of Family Law, ©2013. |
| Description: | xxv, 238 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9333153 |
Table of Contents:
- How qualified is qualified
- When experts rely on experts
- Consulting versus testifying experts: is there a problem?
- Retained experts and their testimony: hired gun or credible?
- Retaining and working with your expert
- Peer into counseling's black box
- Psychological evaluations: more than just testing
- Make sense of psychological tests
- Psychological tests and catching lies
- Make sense of computer-based test reports
- Collateral information: uses and abuses
- Tie experts to professional practice guidelines
- Let the records show
- Use Daubert's reliability toolbox
- Daubert's reliability toolbox: general acceptance and peer review/publication
- Daubert's reliability toolbox: testability and error rates
- Mental health testimony = conclusions + opinions
- Manage experience-based testimony
- It's research, but is it relevant?
- DSM/IV diagnoses: what's the problem?
- Use the analytical gap test: Joiner's versatile reliability metaphor
- Recognize and challenge experts' judgment biases
- Hiding the gap: the power of words
- Recommendations; where the rubber meets the road
- Interim reports: half-baked or reliable?
- Size up evaluation reports: what's the purpose?
- Mine the report's treasures
- Rescue an expert's testimony? try Daubert's flexibile side.
