Competency restoration manual

Competency restoration is a major concern to forensic hospitals, jails, and courts. More rapid restoration has implications for facilitating timely legal determinations for individuals with mental illness as well as reducing crowding in jails and decreasing costs. Psychotropic.  · • Group leaders must be familiar with competency restoration manual • Consider mandated training for all leaders to ensure familiarity with material as well as consistency across service delivery • If groups are being led by unlicensed professionals, regular supervision by clinician is warranted. Competency Restoration: The process of helping an individual gain the skills needed to assist in his or her legal defense. Efforts to restore competency may include the administration of psychiatric medications, competency education, psychotherapy, and .

Monitoring of the patient's barriers to competency. Referral process to refer a patient prior to the term of their court order for a competency evaluation. As part of the treatment, the following materials are approved as supplemental to the standardized manual and competency restoration providers may use these materials as needed: Approved Books. Home / Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and. The Crossroads Competency Restoration Program is a division of Psychological Assessment Inc. The program was developed in order to offer evaluation and restoration services throughout the Bay Area to Regional Center clients whose competency has been doubted or who have been ordered to complete restoration training.

I. INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL B. Types of Impairments in Mentally Retarded Persons Mental retardation often impairs a person's ability to function in more than one way. Three areas of deficits are especially relevant to competency to stand trial: cognitive impairments; impairments in communication; and emotional/behavioral impairments. (Appelbaum, ). Competency Restoration: The process of helping an individual gain the skills needed to assist in his or her legal defense. Efforts to restore competency may include the administration of psychiatric medications, competency education, psychotherapy, and on rare occasions, medical treatment. This manual is to be utilized by competency restoration educators and is used in conjunction with the revised Competency Restoration Client Workbook. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This manual is a compilation of resources from the Florida State Hospital CompKit, and resources from local persons and programs which have been organized for users throughout.