Mental Health Law
Library
Research Guide
Series #2
Compiled by
Bobbi A. Weaver
Reference Librarian
California Western School of Law
Rev. Oct. 2006
SCOPE
:
This research guide is not all-inclusive. It does, however, present resources
available at the CWSL library and online regarding the relationship between law
and psychology. It is designed to provide the researcher with guidance as to the
location of materials dealing with this subject.
Access to Lexis, Westlaw,
and the Internet is limited to students and faculty at CWSL.
We
welcome suggestions for improvements to this and other research guides. Please
consult the Reference Librarian with suggestions and further research
questions. This research guide was originally compiled December 1997.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting Started
Texts and Looseleafs
Periodicals
Internet Resources
Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw
In order to find resources concerning mental health law, you may want to search a variety of resources, including the KIM library catalog and one or more of the periodical indexes listed below. Some of the subject or search terms you might want to try are—
· Mental Health Laws
· Psychiatry
· Psychology
· Forensic Psychiatry
· Forensic Psychology
· Criminal Psychology
· Crime: Psychological Aspects
· Insanity Jurisprudence
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Weekly index to over 500 major U.S. legal periodicals with links to the full text through Westlaw and Lexis (Westlaw and Lexis passwords required). |
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Image-based collection of law journals, many from date of inception to present. Also, pre-1981 Federal Register, treaties from 1776 and U.S. Supreme Court from 1754. Author, title and full text of articles are searchable. |
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Searchable database and indexing service of the abstracts of law-related articles. Link to a list of databases where the full text of each article is available. Updated daily. Check "Legal Periodicals and Books" to search 1982-present, and "Legal Periodicals Retro" to search 1918-1981. |
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Searchable database and index of abstracts of U.S. legal periodical and newspaper articles from 1980 to present. Full text of some articles is available. |
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Includes a searchable database of hundreds of U.S. and Canadian law reviews and journals, from 1982 to the present. Full text of all articles available. Note: Lexis password required. |
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Includes a searchable database of selected documents from hundreds of U.S. law reviews, journals, CLE publications and bar journals. Full coverage for the entire run of some journals, and coverage starting in 1994 for others. Full text of all articles included in the database available. Note: Westlaw password required. |
B. Indexes In Print
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1964-79 |
Third Floor; KFC 1 .C12 |
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Alexander, George J., and Alan W. Scheflin. Law and mental disorder. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c1998.
CALL NO: KF3828 .A935 1998
Andrews, D.A. and James Bonta.
The psychology of criminal
conduct.
Cincinnati,
OH : Anderson Pub. Co., c1998.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: HV6080 .A667 1998
Arrigo,
Bruce A., ed.
Psychological jurisprudence : critical explorations in law, crime, and society.
Albany
: State University of New York Press, c2004.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: K2289 .P79 2004
Arrigo, Bruce A. Punishing the mentally ill: a critical analysis of law and psychiatry. Albany: State University of New York Press, c2002
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF480 .A973 2002
Behnke, Stephen H., et al. The essentials of California mental health law: a straightforward guide for clinicians of all disciplines, 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c1998.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KFC620 .B44 1998
Ben-Porath, Yossef S., et al., eds. Forensic applications of the MMPI-2. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1995.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF8965 .F67
Blinder, Martin. Psychiatry in the everyday practice: a lawyer’s manual for case preparation and trial. Eagan, MN: West, c2005.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
Bonnie, Richard J., and John Monahan, eds. Mental disorder, work disability, and the law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3469 .M46
Bonnie, Richard J., and Lynda E. Frost, eds. The evolution of mental
health law. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .E94 2001
Bottoms, Bette L., and Gail S. Goodman, eds. International perspectives on child abuse and children's testimony: psychological research and law. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c1996.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
Brown, Daniel P., et al. Memory, trauma treatment, and the law. New York: W.W. Norton, c1998.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF9323 .B76 1998
Cantor, Norman L. Making
medical decisions for the profoundly mentally disabled.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT
Press, c2005.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL
No.: KF480 .C36 2005
Caudill, O. Brandt, and Kenneth S. Pope. Law & mental health
professionals: California, 1st ed. Washington, DC: American
Psychological Association, c1995.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KFC546.P7 C38
Cohen, Fred. The mentally disordered inmate and the law. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, c1998.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF9242 .C63 1998
Cutler, Brian L., and Steven D. Penrod. Mistaken identification: the eyewitness, psychology, and the law. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF9672 .C87
Dennis, Deborah L., and John Monahan, eds. Coercion and aggressive community treatment: a new frontier in mental health law. New York : Plenum Press, c1996.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: RA790 .C67
Derdeyn, Andre P., et al.
Mental health aspects
of custody law : National Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Child Custody Law.
Durham,
N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF547 .M46 2005
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR, 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, c2000.
LOCATION: Reserve
CALL NO: RC455.2.C4 D52 2000
Diesfeld, Kate and Ian Freckelton, eds.
Involuntary detention
and therapeutic jurisprudence : international perspectives on civil commitment.
Aldershot,
Hampshire ; Burlington : Ashgate, c2003.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: K640 .I58 2003
Doris, John, ed. The suggestibility of children's recollections Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1991.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF9672.A75 S84
Ewing,
Charles Patrick and Joseph T. McCann.
Minds on trial : great
cases in law and psychology.
Oxford ;
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF8965.A7 E95 2006
Frost,
Lynda E. and Richard J. Bonnie, eds.
The evolution of mental health law.
Washington, DC : American
Psychological Association, c2001.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3828 .E94 2001
Hermann, Donald H. J. Mental health and disability law in a nutshell. St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., 1997.
LOCATION: Reserve
CALL NO: KF3828.Z9 H47
Kapardis, Andreas.
Psychology and law : a critical introduction.
Cambridge,
U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: K487.P75 K36 2003
Koch,
William J., et al.
Psychological injuries :
forensic assessment, treatment, and law.
Oxford
; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF1264 .P79 2006
Levine, Murray and Leah Wallach.
Psychological problems, social issues, and law.
Boston : Allyn and Bacon,
c2002.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL
NO.: KF8965 .L48 2002
Madden, Robert G. Legal issues in social work, counseling, and
mental health: guidelines for clinical practice in psychotherapy.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c1998.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF2910.P75 M33 1998
Mancuso, Laura L. Case studies on reasonable accommodations for workers with psychiatric disabilities. Sacramento, CA (1600 9th St., Room 120, Sacramento 95814): Available from California Dept. of Mental Health, [1993]
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3469 .M36
Melton, Gary B., et al. No place to go: the civil commitment of minors. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1998.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .M434 1998
Meyer,
Robert G., Christopher M. Weaver.
Law and mental health : a
case-based approach.
New York
: Guilford Press, c2006.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF480.A7 M49 2006
Mitchell,
Edward
W. Self-made
madness : rethinking illness and criminal responsibility.
Aldershot,
Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: RA1151 .M527 2003
Morris, Roberta A., et al. Doing legal research : a guide for social scientists and mental health professionals. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c1997.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF240 .M67
Mullany, Nicholas J., and Peter R. Handford. Tort liability for psychiatric damage: the law of "nervous shock". Sydney: Law Book Co., 1993.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: KU940 .M85 1993
Nurcombe, Barry, and David F. Partlett. Child mental health and the law. New York: Free Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1994.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .N87
Parry, John W., and American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, eds. Mental disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: The Commission, c1997.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF337.5.M46 P37 1997
Parry, John, Eric Y. Drogin. Criminal law handbook on psychiatric and psychological evidence and testimony. Washington, DC : American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, c2000
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF9674 .P37 2000
Parry, John W. National benchbook on psychiatric and psychological evidence and testimony. Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, c1998.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF8965 .P37 1998
Perlin, Michael L. Mental disability law: civil and criminal, 2nd ed. Charlottesville, Va.: LEXIS Law Pub., c1998-
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF480 .P47 1998
Pope,
Kenneth S., James N. Butcher, Joyce Seelen.
The MMPI, MMPI-2 & MMPI-A in court : a practical guide for expert witnesses
and attorneys.
Washington, DC : American
Psychological Association, c2000.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF8965 .P66 2000
Sales, Bruce D., and Saleem A. Shah, eds. Mental health and law: research, policy, and services Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c1996.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .M46
Sales,
Bruce D. and Daniel W. Shuman.
Experts in court : reconciling law, science, and professional knowledge.
Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association, c2005.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF8965 .S25 2005
Simon,
Robert I., Liza H. Gold, eds.
The American Psychiatric
Publishing textbook of forensic psychiatry.
Washington,
DC : American Psychiatric Pub., c2004.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: RA1151 .A47 2004
Simon,
Robert I. and Daniel W. Shuman, eds.
Retrospective assessment of
mental states in litigation : predicting the past.
Washington,
DC : American Psychiatric Pub., c2002.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: RA1151 .R445 2002
Slobogin, Christopher.
Minding justice : laws that deprive people with mental disability of life
and liberty.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard
University Press, 2006.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF480 .S545 2006
Slovenko,
Ralph.
Psychiatry in law/law in psychiatry.
New York :
Brunner-Routledge, 2002.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF8965 .S59 2002
Smith, Steven R., and Robert G. Meyer. Law, behavior, and mental health: policy and practice. New York: New York University Press, c1987.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF2910.P75 S46
Sparta, Steven N. and Gerald P. Koocher, eds.
Forensic mental health
assessment of children and adolescents.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford
University Press, 2006.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: RJ503.5 .F67 2006
Spring, Raymond L., et al. Patients, psychiatrists, and lawyers: law and the mental health system, 2nd ed. Cincinnati: Anderson Pub. Co., 1997.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .S68 1997
Van
Dorsten, Brent, ed.
Forensic psychology : from
classroom to courtroom.
New York
: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: RA1148 .F558 2002
Waites,
Richard C.
Courtroom psychology and trial advocacy.
New York
: ALM Pub., 2003.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF8915 .W355 2003
Wexler, David B., and Bruce J. Winick. Essays in therapeutic jurisprudence. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, c1991.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .W485 1991
Wexler, David B., and Bruce J. Winick, eds. Law in a therapeutic key: developments in therapeutic jurisprudence. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c1996.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: K487.P75 L385
Williams, Christopher R., and Bruce A. Arrigo. Law, psychology and justice: the new (dis)order. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: K5027 .W55 2002
Winick, Bruce J. The right to refuse mental health treatment. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c1997.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .W57
Winick, Bruce J. Therapeutic jurisprudence applied: essays on mental health law. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, c1997.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3828 .W58
Zuckerman, Deborah, et al. The ADA and people with mental illness: a resource manual for employers. Washington, D.C.: American Bar Association ; Alexandria, Va.: National Mental Health Association, c1993.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO: KF3469 .A32
American journal of forensic psychiatry. Chicago: R. Shlensky.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: RA1151 .A45
American journal of forensic psychology. Laguna Hills, Calif. : s.n., c1983-
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: RA1148 .A43
American journal of psychiatry. Washington: American Psychiatric Association.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: RC321 .A52
Behavioral sciences & the law. New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1983-
LOCATION: 3rd Floor-Periodicals
International journal of law and psychiatry. New York: Pergamon Press.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor-Periodicals
Journal of psychiatry & law. New York : Federal Legal Publications.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor-Periodicals
Journal of social issues. New York: Published by Plenum for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: HN51 .J6
And online at http://kim.cwsl.edu/record=b1179394
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Bloomfield, CT: The Academy.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO: RA1151 .J68
Law and human behavior. [New York : Plenum Pub. Corp.], 1977-
LOCATION: 3rd Floor-Periodicals
Psychology, public policy, and law: an official law review of the University of Arizona College of Law and the University of Miami School of Law. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c1995-
LOCATION: 3rd Floor-Periodicals
[NOTE: Internet site addresses change frequently. Accordingly, some of these sites may no longer exist under the addresses provided. To locate changed addresses, search for the page title using an Internet search engine such as Google (google.com), Altavista (altavista.com) or HotBot (hotbot.com).
General
The Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, University of Virginia
http://www.ilppp.virginia.edu/
This site has links to research and publications dealing with mental health law issues, and to related sites such as professional associations and research institutes.
Forensic Psychiatry Resources, compiled by Myron Pulier, M.D.
http://www.umdnj.edu/psyevnts/forensic.html
This web site includes links to various resources relevant to forensic psychiatry/psychology.Legal Associations
ABA [American Bar Association] Network
http://www.abanet.org
Although this web page deals with legal issues in general, it comes equipped with its own search engine. Click on "Public Information" to access the search engine. By entering search phrases relevant to mental health law, a researcher can find articles on law and psychology issues.
The State Bar of California
http://www.calbar.ca.gov
Again, this page deals with general legal issues, but is equipped with its own search engine by which the researcher can search by concept or keyword.
Mental Health Professional Associations
American Psychiatric Association
http://www.psych.org/
This association's web site provides links to information on public policy advocacy, a site index, and a site-specific search engine. As on other web sites with their own search engines, a researcher can enter relevant terms to find items on mental health law.
California Psychiatric Association
http://www.calpsych.org/
This web site features links to current legislative information and district branches of the California Psychiatric Association.
American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/
This home page allows the researcher to search for specific topics by concept or keyword.
Advocacy Groups
National Mental Health Association
http://www.nmha.org/
This home page features an "Advocacy" button. By clicking on it, the researcher will elicit further links to current articles on mental health law and policy. This page also provides a link to contact information for local affiliate organizations.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
http://www.nami.org
This organization does advocacy on behalf of the mentally ill and their families. Its web site has a search engine.
These resources are available to CWSL students and faculty. Both services are quite extensive, but a few databases and files are especially relevant to mental health and the law, and have been noted below. Please consult the print or online directories for these services (print directories are available at the Reference Desk) for more complete information regarding coverage. If you have questions about accessing these services, please see a Reference Librarian
A. Lexis: Materials relevant to mental health law can be found in the files “Reference -- Medical,” “Secondary Legal – Law Reviews and Journals” and “Area of Law by Topic – Medical.” Relevant databases (some found in more than one of these files) include—
1. EMBASE references
2. MEDLINE references
3. New England Journal of Medicine
4. American Journal of Psychiatry
5. American Journal of Psychology
6. Law and Psychology Review
7. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law
8. Psychology Today
B. Westlaw: Books, periodicals and other publication databases containing information about mental health law issues are scattered throughout Westlaw, but are most likely to be found in the files “Treatises, CLEs, Practice Guides” and “Legal Periodicals and Current Awareness,” located in the Westlaw Directory. You can then search either of these files for useful publications using one of the search terms suggested above, such as “Mental Health” or “Forensic Psychology.” This should produce a selection of periodicals and treatises which may contain information about that topic. You can search up to ten databases at one time. Relevant databases you might use include—
1. EMBASE databases
2. MEDLINE databases
3. New England Journal of Medicine
4. American Journal of Psychology
5. Behavioral Health Management
6. Behavioral Health Treatment
7. Mental Health Abstracts
8. Mental and Physical Disability Reporter
9. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law
10. Psychology Today