Table of Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
  
• SECTION I: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF POLICE PSYCHOLOGY
  
• Chapter 1. Law Enforcement Agencies and Police Psychology
  
• American Policing
  
• The First American Police Reform Movement
  
• The Second American Police Reform Movement
  
• The Third American Police Reform Movement
  
• U.S. Police Structures
  
• Early Police Psychological Testing
  
• Development of Professional Police Psychology and EAPs
  
• Some Contemporary Issues in Policing
  
• Chapter 2. Police Culture and Assessment/Therapy Issues
  
• Culture
  
• Police-Specific Psychological Assessment, Treatment, and EAP
  
• Special Issues of Psychotherapy in Police Settings
  
• Mental Health Programs
  
• Chapter 3. Law Enforcement Liability and Police Psychology
  
• The Civil Rights Act of 1871
  
• Municipal Liability
  
• Case Law
  
• Failure to Discipline
  
• Expert Testimony by the FFDE Provider
  
• Duty to Warn
  
• Liability for the Certifying Provider
  
• The Right to Offer Opinion of Mental Health Before Employment
  
• SECTION II: THE MECHANICS OF THE FITNESS-FOR-DUTY EVALUATION METHODOLOGY
  
• Chapter 4. Usefulness of Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement Agencies
  
• The Case of Officer Bob
  
• The Law Enforcement Executives’ Choices
  
• The FFDE Option
  
• Chapter 5. Defining the Fitness-for-Duty Evaluation
  
• Who May Offer the FFDE Service?
  
• Positive Risk
  
• Negative Risk
  
• Chapter 6. Developing a Fitness-for-Duty Evaluation System
  
• Friend of the Chief
  
• General FFDE Goals
  
• Administrative Conflict of Interest
  
• Chapter 7. Forms and Styles for the Fitness-for-Duty Evaluation in Law Enforcement
  
• Officer Instructions
  
• Officer Personal Information
  
• Directions for an FFDE Appearance
  
• Third-Party Observations
  
• Electronic Recordings
  
• Copy of the Report
  
• Defamation
  
• Misrepresentation on FFDEs
  
• Résumé Fraud and Free Speech
  
• FFDE Confidentiality in Court Actions
  
• Administrative Forms of FFDEs: Internal and External Providers
  
• Are FFDEs Mandatory?
  
• Lybarger Admonishment
  
• Insubordination
  
• Chapter 8. Assessment: Methods and Procedures
  
• Processing the Officer into the FFDE Setting
  
• Explaining the Nature of All Self-Report Materials
  
• Ending the FFDE Contact with the Officer
  
• Immediate LE Executive Feedback
  
• The Minimum Necessary Rule
  
• Independent Treatment Review Service
  
• Psychology and Law Enforcement Personnel Methods
  
• Cognitive Testing and FFDEs
  
• Introduction to Statistical Considerations for Police Executives
  
• Predictive Validity
  
• Clinical, Forensic, and Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations
  
• Chapter 9. Fitness-for-Duty Report Recommendations
  
• Special Records Section
  
• Postevaluation Outcome Assessment and Distortion
  
• Postassessment Treatment Recommendations
  
• FFDE Provider Recommendations
  
• Release of Records to Third Parties
  
• SECTION III: FORENSIC ISSUES IN FITNESS-FOR-DUTY EVALUATIONS
  
• Chapter 10. Expert Witnesses and the Defense of Selection/Fitness Decisions
  
• The Case of Detective Reed
  
• Federal Rules of Evidence 702
  
• Examining the Expert’s Methods
  
• Chapter 11. Reasons for Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations
  
• The Key Issues
  
• Reasons for Referral
  
• Chapter 12. Misuse of Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations
  
• The Case of Officer Tim
  
• Improper FFDE Referrals
  
• SECTION IV: FEDERAL LAW AND FITNESS-FOR-DUTY EVALUATIONS
  
• Chapter 13. Confidentiality of Psychological Information and t

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Cary D. Rostow, Robert D. Davis