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• Preface Chapter One
• Mental Health Practitioners Under Siege Chapter Two
• Social Psychology of Practitioner Vulnerability: Avoiding Psychological Errors Chapter Three
• Knowing the Opposition Chapter Four
• A Protective Shield for Professional Services Chapter Five - The Practice Context Chapter Six
• Business Savvy: Structuring and Operating a Mental Health Business Chapter Seven - Dealing with Attorneys and the Legal System Chapter Eight
• Threatening and Dangerous Service Users Chapter Nine
• Appropriate Defensiveness Chapter Ten - Avoiding Ethical and Licensing Complaints and Legal Challenges Epilogue References.
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At some point in their careers, mental health professionals may face legal action from clients. Clients may be noncompliant regarding policies agreed upon at the outset of therapeutic services, not adhere to an individualised treatment plan, be inappropriately aggressive, and file unjustified ethics and licensing complaints and/or lawsuits. Unfortunately, many mental health practitioners are not prepared for such actions and suffer great distress that affects their professional and personal lives. This practical text, written by an author who is both a psychologist and an attorney, demonstrates how mental health professionals can avoid legally actionable mistakes in their practices and what to do if they occur. Reflecting contemporary social policy and laws regarding mental health services, the text emphasises the protection of rights for both practitioner and client, and addresses such pitfalls as malpractice, licensing hearings, noncompliant clients, and dealing with the legal system. It distils the author's wisdom, gained over more than 30 years of legal counsel to all types of mental health practitioners, and describes how to improve practice strategies for achieving quality care, confront ethics and licensing complaints, and defend against potential or actual lawsuits. Additionally, the book covers individualised treatment planning, effective record keeping, how to deal with dangerous clients, how to insulate yourself from risk, and more. Numerous real life examples further help practitioners foster the knowledge and skills to assertively defend their rights should the need arise. Key Features: Illustrates how to avoid legally actionable mistakes in assessment and treatment Covers such issues as effective record keeping, treatment planning, dealing with dangerous or non-compliant clients, protecting your practice, and more Helps mental health professionals foster a ""warrior"" mentality when faced with unjust allegations of wrongdoing Presents numerous real-life cases.
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• Understanding the legal process for criminal prosecution
• Constitutionalbases for search and seizure
• Key terms for lawful search and seizure
• Implementing search and seizure
• On patrol
• Residences and other contexts
• Search after arrest
• Practical guidance for law enforcement officers.

Search and seizure in law enforcement is an important area, and this book is devoted solely to that topic. This book aims to provide critical information about the U.S. Constitution, with special emphasis on search and seizure. It will help law enforcement officers to increase their legal knowledge about search and seizure and create a framework for effective problem solving and decision making in the field. It is practically written and focuses on practical ideas. To help the reader develop analytic abilities for practice, brief quotations from U.S. Supreme Court cases reveal legal reasoning by justices.

Essential reading if you are currently involved in custody cases or are considering work in the family law arena. Also a valuable resource for judges and attorneys who must evaluate the extent to which testimony by mental health practitioners is ethical, appropriate, and consistent with accepted practice standards. The author, a psychologist and attorney, uses his unique perspective to delineate standards for practice when providing services to children and families where there are custody disputes. Ethical issues, legal risks, and appropriate safeguards for providing services in child custody cases are described. Core areas for custody evaluations are defined, including: child development, family relations, parenting skills, psychopathology, family systems and dysfunction, and the ruling-out of child abuse. The importance of clarifying professional roles and functions is stressed. Specialized intervention and assessment strategies are presented as well as management issues, legal concerns, and guidelines for testimony. Also includes over 100 valuable summary guidelines and cautions.
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• The history and development of counseling psychology. Public policy mandates for counseling psychology. Critical theories of counseling. Individual counseling and therapy. Career development strategies. Group counseling and therapy. Family therapy. Clinical assessment in counseling psychology. Consultation. Forensic psychology. Health psychology. Ethics and law.
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Providing a frame of reference for training and practice, this text translates theory into practical strategies and techniques that demonstrate to readers what it's like in working practice.
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