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Assessment of Competence Restoration: Determining the Threshold

Dinsmore, Andrea L.
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Dinsmore, Andrea L.
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Department of Psychiatry
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2013-05-01
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mental compentency
 competency to stand trial
 competency restoration
 Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
 Clinical Psychology
 Law and Psychology
 Mental and Social Health
 Psychiatry
 Psychiatry and Psychology
 Psychological Phenomena and Processes
 Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
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Discusses the legal precedent and research basis of evaluating a defendant's mental competency to stand trial, the variables that contribute to non-restorable incompetence to stand trial, and the differences between patients who are restorable to competency versus those who are not restorable to competency.

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Presented at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, May 2013.

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