Despite the extensive technical literature on forensic mental health, there is a lack of practical guidebooks dedicated to generating clear and persuasive forensic mental health reports. Greenfield and Gottschalk present this practical handbook to address this critical need.
This comprehensive guide outlines the proper format for forensic reports, contains multiple examples of full and partial reports, and is organized in a user-friendly, "how-to" style to accomplish its goal. The case overviews of full criminal reports, full civil reports, and civil summaries cover important topics such as domestic violence, malpractice, personal injury, malingering, and more.
Key features: Full-length report samples with step-by-step guidelines explaining how each section of the report is done
Designed to assist the novice, trainee, and seasoned forensic mental health practitioner
Extensive commentaries and discussions following each case overview to convey how the report served to help resolve its case
Extensive reference lists and appendices containing key terms, additional journals and periodicals, Internet resources, and assessment tools

Daniel P. Greenfield, MD, MPH, MS, FASAM is a practicing psychiatrist, addiction medicine specialist, and preventive medicine specialist. He was educated at Oberlin College, the University of North Carolina, the University of London, Cornell University Medical Center, Rutgers University, and Harvard University. In addition to his clinical and forensic practice, Dr. Greenfield formerly taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as an attending physician and at Montefiore Medical Center as Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. He currently teaches at Seton Hall University, where he is Clinical Professor of Neuroscience (Psychiatry) at the JFK Neuroscience Institute Hackensack Meridian Health/JFK University Medical Center.

Foreword - Dickinson R. Debevoise, Sr. U.S.D.J.
Preface - Daniel P. Greenfield, MD, MPH, MS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ELEMENTS OF THE LAW
3. FULL CRIMINAL REPORT
4. SUMMARIES OF CRIMINAL REPORTS
5. FULL CIVIL REPORT
6. SUMMARIES OF CIVIL REPORTS
7. EPILOGUE
APPENDICES
INDEX