RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Commentary: Competency Restoration Research—Complicating an Already Complex Process
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 307
OP 310
VO 39
IS 3
A1 Rotter, Merrill
A1 Greenspan, Michael
YR 2011
UL http://jaapl.org/content/39/3/307.abstract
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.