
Psychological Injury
Published on 15. March 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-85811-337-1 (ISBN)
Description
This aim of this book is to demystify the medical and legal aspects of bringing a claim for psychological injuries. In this respect it has two potential audiences. Firstly, lawyers and claims handlers for whom it is hoped that it will help to explain the terms which appear in medical reports and often appear as incomprehensible technical jargon and concepts. Hopefully it will set them on the road to asking the right questions and making the right assessments in the litigation.
Second, it is aimed at medical practitioners who may enter the medico-legal world and whilst their expertise is in no doubt, may have questions as to what may be expected of them in a different forum. It is hoped that it will provide them with guidance as to the sorts of issues they will be expected to address in the legal process.
Contents include:
SECTION I: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
1. Classification of Psychological Disorders
2. Causation and Attribution
3. Maximising the Reliability of Evidence: Detecting or Preventing Deception
4. Treatment and Prognosis
5. Resolving Evidential Conflict
SECTION II: LEGAL ASPECTS
6. Legal basis of claims for psychological injuries
7. Translating Clinical Opinion into Quantum
8. Civil Procedure
SECTION III: CONCLUSION
9. Psychological Assessment into the 21st Century
Essential reading for anyone involved in personal injury - from the simplest RTA that may involved PTSD to complex million plus litigation.
Readership: Solicitors and barristers, insurers, the courts
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Series
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85811-337-1 (9781858113371)
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