Description
This textbook provides a comprehensive treatment of the law governing mental disability and the mental health professions. The fifth edition provides legal, clinical, and empirical materials for courses on mental disability law, the mental health professions, and criminal mental health law. New materials cover the Virginia Tech shooting, the right to refuse treatment, Clark v. Arizona, Panetti v. Quarterman, and Indiana v. Edwards, as well as updates on federal confidentiality rules; expertise/Daubert issues; civil commitment; competency, sexual predator, and capital sentencing; and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Americans with Disabilities Act. It is accompanied by a teacher's manual.