| Advances in Assessments for Legal Competencies | p. 1 |
| Legal Competencies | p. 2 |
| Legal Competencies in the Criminal Process | p. 3 |
| Legal Competencies in Civil Cases | p. 7 |
| Summary | p. 9 |
| Improving Evaluations for Legal Competencies: How Far Have We Come? | p. 10 |
| Ignorance and Irrelevance | p. 12 |
| Intrusion | p. 15 |
| Insufficiency and Incredibility | p. 17 |
| The Value of a Conceptual Model | p. 19 |
| Legally Relevant Assessments for Legal Competencies | p. 21 |
| Introduction | p. 22 |
| Five Components of Legal Competencies | p. 23 |
| Functional Component | p. 23 |
| Causal Component | p. 29 |
| Interactive Component | p. 32 |
| Judgmental and Dispositional Components | p. 36 |
| Summary | p. 39 |
| Empirical Assessments for Legal Competencies | p. 41 |
| Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 42 |
| Objectives of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 43 |
| The Need for Evaluation of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 47 |
| Standards for Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 49 |
| Conceptual Basis: Defining Legally Relevant Functional Abilities | p. 50 |
| Psychometric Development | p. 55 |
| Construct Validation | p. 59 |
| Predictive or Classificatory Utility | p. 61 |
| Potential for Expressing Person-Situation Congruency | p. 63 |
| Orientation to the Instrument Reviews | p. 64 |
| Discovery and Selection of the Instruments | p. 64 |
| Purposes and Outline of the Review Chapters | p. 65 |
| Competence to Stand Trial | p. 69 |
| The Competence Question | p. 69 |
| Law and Current Practice | p. 70 |
| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | p. 82 |
| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 89 |
| MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA) | p. 90 |
| Fitness Interview Test--Revised (FIT-R) | p. 101 |
| Competence Assessment for Standing Trial for Defendants with Mental Retardation (CAST-MR) | p. 108 |
| Georgia Court Competence Test--Mississippi State Hospital (GCCT-MSH) | p. 115 |
| Competence to Stand Trial Assessment Instrument (CAI) | p. 121 |
| Competence Screening Test (CST) | p. 130 |
| Current Status of The Field | p. 139 |
| Research Directions | p. 139 |
| Clinical Application | p. 145 |
| Waiver of Rights to Silence and Legal Counsel | p. 149 |
| The Competence Question | p. 149 |
| Law and Current Practice | p. 150 |
| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | p. 157 |
| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 163 |
| Comprehension of Miranda Rights (CMR) | p. 164 |
| Comprehension of Miranda Rights--Recognition (CMR-R) | p. 173 |
| Comprehension of Miranda Vocabulary (CMV) | p. 177 |
| Function of Rights in Interrogation (FRI) | p. 181 |
| Current Status of the Field | p. 186 |
| Research Directions | p. 187 |
| Clinical Application | p. 190 |
| Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity | p. 193 |
| The Competence Question | p. 193 |
| Law and Current Practice | p. 195 |
| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | p. 203 |
| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 209 |
| Mental State at the Time of the Offense Screening Evaluation (MSE) | p. 209 |
| Rogers Criminal Responsibility Assessment Scales (R-CRAS) | p. 216 |
| Current Status of the Field | p. 223 |
| Research Directions | p. 223 |
| Clinical Application | p. 225 |
| Parenting Capacity | p. 229 |
| The Competence Question | p. 229 |
| Abuse, Neglect, and Termination of Parental Rights | p. 230 |
| Divorce and Custody | p. 231 |
| Law and Current Practice | p. 232 |
| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | p. 250 |
| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 258 |
| Ackerman-Schoendorf Scales for Parent Evaluation of Custody (ASPECT) | p. 258 |
| Bricklin Perceptual Scales (BPS) | p. 268 |
| Perception of Relationships Test (PORT) | p. 274 |
| Parent Awareness Skills Survey (PASS) and Parent Perception of Child Profile (PPCP) | p. 278 |
| Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAPI) | p. 281 |
| Parenting Stress Index (PSI) | p. 292 |
| Parent-Child Relationship Inventory (PCRI) | p. 298 |
| Current Status of the Field | p. 301 |
| Research Directions | p. 301 |
| Clinical Application | p. 306 |
| Guardianship and Conservatorship | p. 309 |
| The Competence Question | p. 309 |
| Law and Current Practice | p. 313 |
| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | p. 322 |
| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 331 |
| IADL Instruments Based on Interview or Observation | p. 334 |
| Adult Functional Adaptive Behavior Scale (AFABS) | p. 334 |
| Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire (MFAQ) | p. 338 |
| Philadelphia Geriatric Center Multilevel Assessment Inventory (MAI) | p. 346 |
| Performance Based Instruments to Assess IADL's | p. 352 |
| Direct Assessment of Functional Status (DAFS) | p. 352 |
| Everyday Problems Test (EPT) | p. 357 |
| Performance Based Instruments to Assess Need for Guardian or Conservator | p. 359 |
| Decisionmaking Instrument for Guardianship (DIG) | p. 359 |
| Financial Capacity Instrument (FCI) | p. 363 |
| Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview (HCAI) | p. 367 |
| Independent Living Scales (ILS) | p. 369 |
| Current Status of the Field | p. 378 |
| Research Directions | p. 378 |
| Clinical Application | p. 387 |
| Competence to Consent to Treatment | p. 391 |
| The Competence Question | p. 391 |
| Law and Current Practice | p. 393 |
| From Legal Standard to Forensic Assessment | p. 398 |
| Review of Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 404 |
| Capacity to Consent to Treatment Instrument (CCTI) | p. 405 |
| Hopemont Capacity Assessment Interview (HCAI) | p. 412 |
| Hopkins Competency Assessment Test (HCAT) | p. 416 |
| MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T) | p. 421 |
| MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Clinical Research (MacCAT-CR) | p. 429 |
| Understanding Treatment Disclosures (UTD) | p. 435 |
| Perceptions of Disorder (POD) | p. 440 |
| Thinking Rationally about Treatment (TRAT) | p. 447 |
| Psychometric Development | p. 450 |
| Current Status of the Field | p. 453 |
| Research Directions | p. 453 |
| Clinical Application | p. 458 |
| Developing and Using Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 461 |
| Developing Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 462 |
| Functional Component | p. 462 |
| Causal Component | p. 469 |
| Interactive Component | p. 471 |
| Judgmental and Dispositional Components | p. 472 |
| Using Forensic Assessment Instruments | p. 473 |
| Forming the Question | p. 474 |
| Selecting Assessment Methods | p. 474 |
| Describing Functional Abilities | p. 475 |
| Explaining Functional Deficits | p. 476 |
| Making Predictions or Postdictions | p. 477 |
| Stating Conclusions | p. 477 |
| A Note on Potential Misuse of FAIs | p. 478 |
| Continuing the Improvement of Forensic Assessments | p. 479 |
| The Conceptual Model | p. 479 |
| The Future of FAIs | p. 480 |
| References | p. 483 |
| Legal Citations | p. 515 |
| Subject Index | p. 519 |
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