Macarthur Competence Assessment Tool For Treatment Maccat T

Author : Thomas Grisso,Paul S. Appelbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Decision making
ISBN : 1568870418

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MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T) by Thomas Grisso,Paul S. Appelbaum Pdf

The MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T) is the product of an 8-year study of patients' capacities to make treatment decisions. It is a semi-structured interview that assists clinicians in assessing a patient's competence to consent to treatment. The process provides a patient with information about their medical/psychiatric condition, the type of treatment being recommended, its risks and benefits, as well as other possible treatments and their probable consequences. During this process, the MacCAT-T prompts the clinician to ask questions that assess the patient's understanding, appreciation, and reasoning regarding treatment decisions.The MacCAT-T Manual is a large-format, examiner-friendly field manual for conducting actual competency assessments. The MacCAT-T Record Form is well designed for recording, rating, and summarizing patient responses. The training videotape, Administering the MacCAT-T, demonstrates an actual administration of the test with discussion, comments, and annotations by Drs. Grisso and Appelbaum.The book, Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment, describes the place of competence in the doctrine of informed consent, analyzes the elements of decision making, and shows how assessments of competence to consent to treatment can be conducted within varied general medical and psychiatric treatment settings. Includes numerous case studies.

Author : Paul S. Appelbaum,Thomas Grisso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Decision making
ISBN : 156887071X

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MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR) by Paul S. Appelbaum,Thomas Grisso Pdf

The MacCAT-CR provides a structured format for capacity assessment that is adaptable to the particulars of any given research project. With the introduction of the MacCAT-CR, researchers enrolling human participants in their studieshave available for the first time a reliable and valid means of assessing their potential subject's capacity to consent to participation. The MacCAT-CR can typically be administered in 15-20 minutes. Beginning with project-specific disclosures to potential participants, the MacCAT-CR measures the four generally accepted components of decision-making competence: understanding, appreciation, reasoning, and the ability to express a choice. Quantification of subjects' responses permits comparisons across subjects and subject groups, and allows the MacCAT-CR to be used for not only for screening individual participants but also for conducting research on the characteristics of subject populations and for assessing the effectiveness of interventions designed to increase subjects' capacities.

Author : Thomas Grisso,Paul S. Appelbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195103726

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Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment by Thomas Grisso,Paul S. Appelbaum Pdf

The book explains how assessments should be conducted and offers detailed, practice-tested interview guidelines to assist medical practitioners in this task. Numerous case studies illustrate real-life applications of the concepts and methods discussed. Grisso and Appelbaum also explore the often difficult process of making judgments about competence and describe what to do when patients' capacities are limited.".

Author : Thomas Grisso
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780306479229

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Evaluating Competencies by Thomas Grisso Pdf

This book offers a conceptual model for understanding the nature of legal competencies. The model is interpreted to assist mental health professionals in designing and performing assessments for legal competencies defined in criminal and civil law, and to guide research that will improve the practice of evaluations for legal competencies. A special feature is the book's evaluative review of specialized forensic assessment instruments for each of several legal competencies. Three-fourths of the 37 instruments reviewed in this second edition are new.

Author : Professor of Psychiatry Thomas Grisso,Arnold Frank Zeleznik Professor and Chair of Psychiatry Paul S Appelbaum
Publisher : Professional Resource Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1568870426

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MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment/ 10 Pac by Professor of Psychiatry Thomas Grisso,Arnold Frank Zeleznik Professor and Chair of Psychiatry Paul S Appelbaum Pdf

Author : Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt,Jaap E. Doek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004327573

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Children’s Rights in Health Care by Jozef H.H.M. Dorscheidt,Jaap E. Doek Pdf

This volume contains several analyses of health rights issues related to children. The various chapters provide an overview of this captivating area and may be of special interest to lawyers, health care professionals, ethicists, psychologists, judicial institutions, policy makers, interest groups, students and all others who are concerned with the children’s rights perspective on health care.

Author : Norman G. Poythress Jr.,Richard J. Bonnie,John Monahan,Randy Otto,Steven K. Hoge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441984937

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Adjudicative Competence by Norman G. Poythress Jr.,Richard J. Bonnie,John Monahan,Randy Otto,Steven K. Hoge Pdf

Adjudicative competence remains an important topic of research and practice in psychology and law. In the five sections of Adjudicative Competence: The MacArthur Studies, the authors present not only a summary of the research of the MacArthur studies on competence but also an examination of the underlying theoretical work of Professor Richard Bonnie. It is the first publication to encapsulate the scope and significance of both the studies themselves and Bonnie's contributions. There is no other source available that addresses this range of topics. Given its breadth and scope, this book will be a "must have" for forensic mental health professionals, an important volume for lawyers, and a vital academic reference work.

Author : Conrad M. Swartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139478861

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Electroconvulsive and Neuromodulation Therapies by Conrad M. Swartz Pdf

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatric treatment involving the induction of a seizure through the transmission of electricity in the brain. Because of exploitation movies and greatly heightened drug company promotional activities ECT was used less frequently in the 1980s and 1990s. Eventually these movies were understood as unrealistic. Now these drugs are increasingly recognized as dangers to body health. Because of recent refinements and a far better scientific understanding of the clinical procedures and mechanisms underpinning ECT, this treatment modality has seen a resurgence in use and widespread appreciation of its safety. This book is the new definitive reference on electroconvulsive and neuromodulation therapies. It comprehensively covers the scientific basis and clinical practice of ECT as well as comparisons between ECT and medication therapies including the new generation of antipsychotic drugs. It also provides readers with administrative perspectives and specific details for the management of this modality in clinical practice. The new forms of nonconvulsive electrical and magnetic brain stimulation therapy are also covered in detail, in a separate section. The chapter authors are leading scholars and clinicians.

Author : T. Scott Stroup,Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139487573

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Antipsychotic Trials in Schizophrenia by T. Scott Stroup,Jeffrey A. Lieberman Pdf

Antipsychotic medications are a key treatment for schizophrenia and sales of antipsychotic drugs approach $20 billion per year, with fierce marketing between the makers of the drugs. The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health sponsored the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) project to provide independent information about the comparative effectiveness of medications. CATIE was the largest, longest and most comprehensive study of schizophrenia to date. Conducted under rigorous double-blind conditions, Antipsychotic Trials in Schizophrenia presents the definitive archival results of this landmark study. The core of the book consists of chapters focused on specific outcomes that set the CATIE findings in a wider context. Also included are chapters on the design, statistical analyses and implications for researchers, clinicians and policy makers. Psychiatrists, psychiatric researchers, mental health policy makers and those working in pharmaceutical companies will all find this to be essential reading.

Author : Gary B. Melton,Gerald P. Koocher,Michael J. Saks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781468442892

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Children’s Competence to Consent by Gary B. Melton,Gerald P. Koocher,Michael J. Saks Pdf

Author : Paul S. Appelbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195068807

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Almost a Revolution by Paul S. Appelbaum Pdf

Doubts about the reality of mental illness and the benefits of psychiatric treatment helped foment a revolution in the law's attitude toward mental disorders over the last 25 years. Legal reformers pushed for laws to make it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them when they committed criminal acts. Advocates of reform promised vast changes in how our society deals with the mentally ill; opponents warily predicted chaos and mass suffering. Now, with the tide of reform ebbing, Paul Appelbaum examines what these changes have wrought. The message emerging from his careful review is a surprising one: less has changed than almost anyone predicted. When the law gets in the way of commonsense beliefs about the need to treat serious mental illness, it is often put aside. Judges, lawyers, mental health professionals, family members, and the general public collaborate in fashioning an extra-legal process to accomplish what they think is fair for persons with mental illness. Appelbaum demonstrates this thesis in analyses of four of the most important reforms in mental health law over the past two decades: involuntary hospitalization, liability of professionals for violent acts committed by their patients, the right to refuse treatment, and the insanity defense. This timely and important work will inform and enlighten the debate about mental health law and its implications and consequences. The book will be essential for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, lawyers, and all those concerned with our policies toward people with mental illness.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309133661

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Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Crossing the Quality Chasm: Adaptation to Mental Health and Addictive Disorders Pdf

Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substance-use conditions, or both. Together, mental and substance-use illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability for women, the highest for men ages 15-44, and the second highest for all men. Effective treatments exist, but services are frequently fragmented and, as with general health care, there are barriers that prevent many from receiving these treatments as designed or at all. The consequences of this are seriousâ€"for these individuals and their families; their employers and the workforce; for the nation's economy; as well as the education, welfare, and justice systems. Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions examines the distinctive characteristics of health care for mental and substance-use conditions, including payment, benefit coverage, and regulatory issues, as well as health care organization and delivery issues. This new volume in the Quality Chasm series puts forth an agenda for improving the quality of this care based on this analysis. Patients and their families, primary health care providers, specialty mental health and substance-use treatment providers, health care organizations, health plans, purchasers of group health care, and all involved in health care for mental and substanceâ€"use conditions will benefit from this guide to achieving better care.

Author : Jeffrey Kreutzer,Bruce Caplan,John DeLuca
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387799476

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology by Jeffrey Kreutzer,Bruce Caplan,John DeLuca Pdf

This Encyclopedia goes beyond other references in the field to offer concise and comprehensive coverage of assessment, treatment and rehabilitation in a single source, with more than fifteen hundred entries with linked cross-references and suggested readings.

Author : George J. Demakis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199774203

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Civil Capacities in Clinical Neuropsychology by George J. Demakis Pdf

Clinical neuropsychologists are increasingly involved in the evaluation of civil capacities and are in demand by other professionals, particularly attorneys and judges, to assist their decision-making about these sometimes complex issues. While there has been some neuropsychological research in this area, this has not been assembled into a single volume nor have practice recommendations been provided. This volume fills these gaps. The first part of this volume reviews and synthesizes the research literature on neuropsychological aspects of civil capacities. The specific capacities addressed include driving, financial and healthcare decision-making, testamentary (i.e., will-making) capacity, and personal care and independence. Each chapter addresses relevant background issues, conceptual/theoretical advances, and empirical findings. The chapters also include an illustrative case study that demonstrates how the authors (each expert in the various areas) evaluated and conceptualized the case. Each chapter is written from an evidence-based perspective and, where appropriate, uses research to inform practice recommendations. The second part of this volume provides recommendations to practitioners on how to conduct civil capacity evaluations that utilize neuropsychological assessment. There are chapters on an evaluative framework for the assessment, capacity test selection and psychometric issues, working with other data sources besides testing (e.g., collateral interviews), best practices in report-writing and testifying, as well as common ethical issues in such cases. Throughout, these chapters provide practical "how to" advice to improve neuropsychological practice and consulting in civil capacity cases. In addition to these chapters, there is a chapter written by legal consumers of psychological reports. This chapter offers a wealth of useful information and recommendations that, if followed, will further serve to advance psychological report-writing and consultation in civil capacity evaluations.

Author : Jacob C. Holzer,Robert Kohn,James M. Ellison,Patricia R. Recupero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199374656

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Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry by Jacob C. Holzer,Robert Kohn,James M. Ellison,Patricia R. Recupero Pdf

Geriatric Forensic Psychiatry: Principles and Practice is one of the first texts to provide a comprehensive review of important topics in the intersection of geriatric psychiatry, medicine, clinical neuroscience, forensic psychiatry, and law. It will speak to a broad audience among varied fields, including clinical and forensic psychiatry and mental health professionals, geriatricians and internists, attorneys and courts, regulators, and other professionals working with the older population. Topics addressed in this text, applied to the geriatric population, include clinical forensic evaluation, regulations and laws, civil commitment, different forms of capacity, guardianship, patient rights, medical-legal issues related to treatment, long term care and telemedicine, risk management, patient safety and error reduction, elder driving, sociopathy and aggression, offenders and the adjudication process, criminal evaluations, corrections, ethics, culture, cognitive impairment, substance abuse, trauma, older professionals, high risk behavior, and forensic mental health training and research. Understanding the relationship between clinical issues, laws and regulations, and managing risk and improving safety, will help to serve the growing older population.