The Clinician's Guide to Geriatric Forensic Evaluations
- 1st Edition - June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Karen Reimers
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 3 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 3 5 - 1
The Clinician's Guide to Geriatric Forensic Evaluations provides practical guidance to clinicians performing forensic evaluations on older adults. The book begins with how geria… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Clinician's Guide to Geriatric Forensic Evaluations provides practical guidance to clinicians performing forensic evaluations on older adults. The book begins with how geriatric forensic evaluations differ from those done on non-geriatric adults. DSM-5 criteria for neurocognitive disorders are discussed and differentiated from the previous criteria in DSM-IV. Coverage includes assessing decision-making capacity/competence and evaluating undue influence, elder abuse, and financial exploitation. Each chapter opens with a case study and then highlights specific assessment techniques, best practices, and common pitfalls to avoid. The book additionally covers forensic report writing, court testimony, and when to refer to an outside independent expert. Samples of geriatric forensic reports are provided.
- Provides practical information on performing geriatric forensic evaluations
- Identifies DSM-5 criteria for neurocognitive disorders
- Includes assessing decision-making capacity/competence, undue influence, elder abuse, and financial exploitation
- Features assessment strategies, case studies, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid
- Advises on report writing and court testimony
Mental health clinicians including forensic psychologists/psychiatrists, geriatric psychologists/psychiatrists; secondary audience includes academic, advanced undergrad and grad students, and MDs who make capacity determinations as part of their clinical practice
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 278
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128150344
- eBook ISBN: 9780128150351
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Karen Reimers
Karen Reimers, MD, FRCPC, is board certified in psychiatry in the United States and Canada. She is an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Reimers is active in clinical, teaching, and consulting roles and is an expert witness for contested wills and trusts, cognitive impairment, and undue influence. She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. Her interest in geriatric forensic evaluations arose out of her clinical practice with elderly patients, after having been involved in decisions about capacity to consent to treatment, driving capacity, guardianship, and other medicolegal questions.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, United StatesRead The Clinician's Guide to Geriatric Forensic Evaluations on ScienceDirect