Douglas Mossman, MD / March 2012

One book and two of Doug’s articles are now in print:

Doug completed a manuscript, “Curbside” Consults and Professional Liability, which has been submitted to Current Psychiatry.

Two of Doug’s articles have been accepted for publication:

  • Estimating the Accuracy of Neurocognitive Effort Measures in the Absence of a “Gold Standard” 24 Psychol. Assessment ___ (2012) (with Dustin B. Wygant & Roger O. Gervais); and
  • When Forensic Examiners Disagree: Bias, or Just Inaccuracy? 18 Psychol., Pub. Policy & L. ___ (2012).

Several of Doug’s publications were cited:

  • AAPL Practice Guideline for the Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psych. & L. S3 (2007), in Andrew F. Kauffman, et al., Survey of Forensic Mental Health Experts on Pro Se Competence after Indiana v. Edwards, 39 J. Am. Acad. Psych. & L. 565 (2011);
  • Another Look at Interpreting Risk Categories, 18 Sexual Abuse – J. Res. & Treatment 41 (2006), in Nicholas Scurich & Richard S. John, Prescriptive Approaches to Communicating the Risk of Violence in Actuarial Risk Assessment, 18 Psychol., Pub. Policy & L. 50 (2012);
  • Assessing Predictions of Violence – Being Accurate about Accuracy, 62 J. Consulting & Clinical Psychol. 783 (1994), in: Nicholas Scurich & Richard S. John, Prescriptive Approaches to Communicating the Risk of Violence in Actuarial Risk Assessment, 18 Psychol., Pub. Policy & L. 50 (2012); Nicholas Scurich & Richard S. John, Constraints on Restraints:A Signal Detection Analysis of the Use of Mechanical Restraints on Adult Psychiatric Inpatients, 21 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Soc. Just. 75 (2011); Kate McGregor, et al., Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Substance Misuse, and the Four-Facet Model of Psychopathy: The Relationship to Violence, 136 Schizophrenia Res. 116 (Apr. 2012); Yuval Melamed, et al., Assessing the Risk of Violent Behavior before Issuing a License to Carry a Handgun, 13 J. Am. Acad. Psych. & L. 543 (2011); and Stephen C. P. Wong & Karen K. Parhar, Evaluation of the Predictive Validity of the Violence Risk Scale in a Paroled Offender Sample: A Seven-Year Prospective Study, 22 J. Forensic Psych. & Psychol. 790 (2011);
  • Balancing Risks and Benefits: Another Approach to Optimizing Diagnostic Tests, 4 J. Neuropsych. & Clinical Neurosci. 331 (1992) (with Eugene Somoza), in Nicholas Scurich & Richard S. John, Constraints on Restraints: A Signal Detection Analysis of the Use of Mechanical Restraints on Adult Psychiatric Inpatients, 21 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Soc. Just. 75 (2011);
  • Critique of Pure Risk Assessment or, Kant Meets Tarasoff, 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 523 (2006), in Nicholas Scurich & Richard S. John, Constraints on Restraints:A Signal Detection Analysis of the Use of Mechanical Restraints on Adult Psychiatric Inpatients, 21 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Soc. Just. 75 (2011);
  • Dangerousness Decisions: An Essay on the Mathematics of Clinical Violence and Predictions and Involuntary Hospitalization, 2 U. Chi. L. Sch. Roundtable 95 (1995), in Nicholas Scurich & Richard S. John, Constraints on Restraints:A Signal Detection Analysis of the Use of Mechanical Restraints on Adult Psychiatric Inpatients, 21 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Soc. Just. 75 (2011); and
  • Predicting Restorability of Incompetent Criminal Defendants, 35 J. Am. Acad. Psych. & L. 34 (2007), in: Nicholas Rosinia, How ‘Reasonable’ Has Become Unreasonable: A Proposal for Rewriting the Lasting Legacy of Jackson v. Indiana, 89 Wash. U. L. Rev. 673 (2012); and Gianni Pirelli, et al., Competency to Stand Trial Research: Guidelines and Future Directions, 22 J. Forensic Psych. & Psychol. 340 (2011).

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