The expert expert witness : more maxims and guidelines for testifying in court /
"Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise does not easily translate to effective courtroom testimony. Even veteran expert witnesses can encounter new challenges in these high-pressure situations, especially...
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
2016
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Apologies
- Arbitrary pigeonholes
- Asked and answered
- Boundaries between expert witness roles and trial consultation
- Confabulations
- Consistent experts
- Context
- Directed feedback
- Discovery and discoveries
- Ethics in expert testimony
- Evasive responses : hopeless but not serious
- Experience does not count
- Expert witness as master teacher
- Fact witnesses
- Frames of reference
- Gender-intrusive questions
- Gotcha and goodbye
- Holy mackerel, man!
- Illusory documentation
- Integrity checks
- Language : it's a virus
- Lawyer bashing and lawyer jokes
- Le mot juste
- Lost and befuddled
- Low pitches
- Metatestimony
- Offensive language
- Offensive questions
- Personal attacks : overview
- Personal attacks : demeaning attorneys
- Personal attacks : internet vulnerabilities
- Personal attacks : taints
- Pulling and the push-pull
- Real and apparent ambiguities
- Recording of assessments
- Sayonara solutions
- Silent treatments
- Sleight of hand
- Social construction of posttraumatic stress disorder and dangerousness
- Spontaneity and alertness on the stand
- Swoop and perch
- Telephoned and videorecorded testimony
- Thank you, thank you, thank you
- Their words in our mouths
- Tightrope walking
- To faint, to weep, to blank out
- Traps of common sense
- True grit and false
- Ultimate opinion testimony
- Well beyond testimony
- What we like to see in an expert witness-- and what we don't