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Getting the Diagnosis Right: A Psychologist's perspective on legal mental capacity
UNSW EDGE
Updated Jul 05, 2025
What you'll learn
- Identify appropriate mental capacity tests for legal contexts
- Understand methods of mental health diagnoses and their errors' "Determine client's capacity to give legal instructions" 'Apply clinical psychology techniques in legal assessments
Course Description
CPD units: 1
Knowledge area: Professional skills
In this interactive module, Dr Paul Phillips discusses the different methods of mental health diagnoses and their margin for error. Whether determining a client's capacity to give instructions or determining mental capacity for trial, Dr Phillips identifies which tests for capacity a lawyer should request conducted by the mental health expert.
Facilitator: Dr Paul Phillips, of Need A Psych.
Recorded: 6 November 2019
