A survey of forensic mental health professionals with experience conducting criminal responsibility evaluations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Jean Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Forensic Mental Health

scholarly journals What Are the Core Features of Psychopathy? A Prototypicality Analysis Using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R)

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Verschuere ◽  
Laura te Kaat
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
The Core ◽  
Forced Ranking ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist Revised ◽  
Discrimination Parameter ◽  
Core Features

What are the core features of psychopathy? Previous prototypicality analyses showed that many features were considered as highly prototypical. The authors extend this work by using forced ranking to grasp which features are most important. Forensic mental health professionals ranked the 20 Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) items on their importance to psychopathy. Affective-interpersonal features were judged to be of greater importance than behavioral–lifestyle features. The most important items were callous/lack of empathy, conning/manipulative, and lack of remorse or guilt, which were deemed more important than nearly all other PCL-R features. The prototypicality ranking of the 20 PCL-R items by the forensic mental health professionals showed strong overlap (r = .64 to .86) with psychometric indices of item importance (network centrality, item-total correlation, and item response theory discrimination parameter). Taken together, these findings clarify the relative importance of PCL-R features to psychopathy.

Quasi-Judicial Immunity for Forensic Mental Health Professionals in Court-Appointed Roles

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Kirkland ◽  
Kale E. Kirkland ◽  
Glen D. King ◽  
Guy J. Renfro
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Forensic Mental Health

The Designated Forensic Professional Program in Massachusetts

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Ira K. Packer ◽  
Thomas Grisso
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Competence To Stand Trial ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
National Model ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

The Designated Forensic Professional Program in Massachusetts, a collaboration between the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, was started in 1985 for the purpose of providing specialty training and certification to mental health professionals providing public-sector evaluations of competence to stand trial and criminal responsibility to the Massachusetts courts. The program initially certified only psychologists but was eventually expanded to include forensic psychiatrists as well. The approach involves intensive mentoring and supervision and serves as a national model for states wishing to train public sector mental health professionals in the delivery of specialized forensic evaluations.

Seven Myths About Feigning

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Jelicic ◽  
Harald Merckelbach ◽  
Irena Bošković
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Clinical Interviews ◽  
Faking Good ◽  
General Psychiatry

Defendants may feign of psychiatric disorders to reduce their criminal responsibility. In this chapter, seven myths about feigning are debunked. It shows that: (1) Clinical interviews cannot be used to detect feigning of psychopathology and cognitive impairments; (2) pretending to have a disorder is ubiquitous in forensic and general psychiatry: (3) people are able to feign for a prolonged period of time; (4) feigners are not ill; (5) mental health professionals should not be kind to feigners; (6) there is no exclusive feigning–psychopathy link; and (7) feigning and faking good may occur together. In addition, tests are described that can detect feigning in a valid way.

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