Psychological knowledge in court

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sect. I. Introduction. 1. Introduction to psychological knowledge in court: PTSD, pain, and TBI / Gerald Young, Andrew W. Kane, & Keith Nicholson -- 2. Psychology, causality, and court / Andrew W. Kane -- Sect. II. PTSD/Distress. 3. Understanding PTSD: implications for court / Gerald Young & Rachel Yehuda -- 4. Posttraumatic disorders following injury: assessment and other methodological considerations / Meaghan L. O'Donnell et al. -- 5. Predicting who will develop posttraumatic stress disorder / Daniel S. Weiss & Emily J. Ozer -- 6. Assessment of psychological distress and disability after sexual assault in adults / Melissa A. Polusny & Paul A. Arbisi --Sect. III. Chronic pain. 7. Pain in the 21st century: the neuromatrix and beyond / Ronald Melzach & Joel Katz -- 8. Influence of personality characteristics of pain patients: implications for causality in pain / Robert J. Gatchel & Nancy Kishino -- 9. Effect of cognition on pain experience and pain behavior: diathesis - stress and the causal conundrum / Tamar Pincus -- 10. Chronic pain and affect as a nonlinear dynamical system / Gerald Young & C. Richard Chapman -- 11. Objective and subjective measurement of pain: current approaches for forensic applications / Jeffrey J. Sherman & Richard Ohrbach -- Sect. IV. PTSD and pain. 12. Posttraumatic stress disorder and whiplash after motor vehicle accidents / Brian M. Freidenberg et al. -- 13. PTSD and chronic pain: cognitive-behavioral perspectives and practical implications / Gordon J.G. Asmundson & Steven Taylor -- 14. Comorbid chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder across the lifespan: a review of theoretical models / John D. Otis, Donna B. Pincus & Terence M. Keane -- Sect. V. Traumatic brain injury. 15. Mild traumatic brain injury: definitions / Jeffrey T. Barth, Ronald Ruff, & Patricia Espe-Pfeifer -- 16. Mild traumatic brain injury: neuropsychological causality modelling / Rodney D. Vanderploeg, Heather G. Belanger & Glenn Curtiss -- 17. Mild Traumatic brain injury: causality considerations from a neuroimaging and neuropathology perspective / Erin D. Bigler -- 18. Confounding effects of pain, psychoemotional problems or psychiatric disorder, premorbid ability structure, and motivational or other factors on neuropsychological test performance / Keith Nicholson & Michael F. Martelli -- 19. Neuropsychological assessment of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury / Brigitte N. Patry & Catherine A. Mateer -- Sect. VI. Conclusions. 20. Conclusions on psychological knowledge in court: PTSD, pain, and TBI / Gerald Young, Keith Nicholson & Andrew W. Kane.

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