PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Merrill Rotter
AU  - Michael Greenspan
TI  - Commentary: Competency Restoration Research—Complicating an Already Complex Process
DP  - 2011 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 307--310
VI  - 39
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/39/3/307.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/39/3/307.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2011 Sep 01; 39
AB  - Predicting restorability in individuals found not competent to stand trial is an enduring focus of interest among forensic clinicians and academicians. In our commentary, we suggest that to understand this area even more comprehensively, we must look further. We must build on existing research on fitness to stand trial, move beyond diagnosis and a binary competence variable, and include the complex interplay between symptoms and fitness-related capacities that may be associated with lack of adjudicative competence and challenges to restorability.