Psychiatry, Psychology and Law articles from April 2006

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law archives from April 2006

Inventor, entrepreneur, rascal, crank or querulent?: Australia's vexatious litigant sanction 75 years on.
April 1, 2006... Rupert Frederick Millane (1887-1969) was Australia's first declared vexatious litigant, An inventor, entrepreneur, land developer, transport pioneer and self-taught litigator, his extraordinary flood of unsuccessful litigaion in the 1920s led...

Specific risk assessment based on victim type in child sexual offenders.(Australia)
April 1, 2006... Actuarial instruments for assessing sex offender recidivism have limited utility for specific risk assessment questions, such as the risk posed to particular types of victim. In order to obtain variables that discriminate between offenders with...

The relationship between the adjustment of Australian police officers and their partners.
April 1, 2006... This study examined the impact of police officers' trauma on the psychological adjustment of their partners. One hundred and three Victorian police officers and their spousal partners completed measures assessing trauma exposure, PTSD...

Hunter Area Health Services v. Presland: liability of mental health services for failing to admit or detain a patient with mental illness.(New South Wales)
April 1, 2006... In Presland v Hunter Area Health Services [2003] NSWSC 754; BC200304853, the NSW Supreme Court on 21 August 2003 entered judgment for a patient, Kevin Presland, against the Hunter Area Health Service and a psychiatry registrar for injury...

How processing resources shape the influence of stealing thunder on mock-juror verdicts.
April 1, 2006... Stealing thunder is a dissuasive tactic that involves volunteering self-incriminating information before another party does. This study investigated how the impact of stealing thunder on mock-juror judgments varied with the processing resources...

'Locked up without guilt or sin': the ethics of mental health service delivery in immigration detention.(Australia)
April 1, 2006... Immigration Detention Centres are a historically recent phenomenon in Australia, but they possess many of the characteristics of older closed institutions of incarceration. Modern principles of administrative law and government service delivery...

The detection of malingered psychopathology and cognitive deficits: employing the Fake Bad Scale and the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices.(Australia)
April 1, 2006... The feigning of cognitive deficits and the feigning of psychopathology are generally regarded as two separate domains of malingering. Malingering detection techniques have usually been developed and applied with this distinction in mind. This...

The therapeutic intent of the New Zealand Mental Health Review Tribunal.
April 1, 2006... The New Zealand Mental Health Review Tribunal states that therapeutic intentions guide its decision-making process. The review body reports that it endeavours to make positive comments and promote therapeutic relationships (Review Tribunal,...

The influence of limiting instructions on processing and judgments of emotionally evocative evidence.(Australia)
April 1, 2006... Most jury instructions are issued after all the evidence has been presented in a trial; however, some are given during the trial. When gruesome photographs form part of the evidence in criminal culpability proceedings, the judge will usually...

Confidentiality in therapeutic relationships: the need to develop comprehensive guidelines for mental health professionals.(Australia)
April 1, 2006... This article explores the current ethical and legal standards concerning confidentiality in therapeutic relationships. It examines the existing literature concerning mental health professionals' experiences and attitudes towards confidentiality...

Drugs, sex and the risk of recidivism: psychiatry in the witness box.(New South Wales)
April 1, 2006... This article explores the way in which psychiatric evidence is used in disciplinary proceedings involving sex or drugs complaints against doctors in New South Wales. The evidence may be used not only to explain or justify aberrant behaviour,...

Inside Madness.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... M. Sweet Macmillan, Sydney, 2006, pb, 334pp, $35 On 14 October 2002 a tragic event that was to send shockwaves through Australia's mental health community occurred. Dr Tobin, the Director of Mental Health Services of South Australia, was...