Description: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. To address this dearth of writing guides, Greenfield and Gotsschalk present a practical handbook to assist mental health professionals at all levels of career development in their effective production of forensic reports. This practical and comprehensive guidebook provides a format for forensic reports, contains multiple examples of full and partial forensic reports, and is organized in a user-friendly, "how-to" style, to accomplish its goal. Key features: Full-length report samples with step-by-step guides explaining how each section of the report is done Extensive reference lists and appendices for further information and research Includes basic information about the legal and clinical bases for discussing forensic issues and for writing effective reports Discusses how to apply reports to forensic settings