Two papers examining mental incapacity among psychiatric in-patients are presented in the Journal this month – one investigation focuses on assessment reliability (Cairns et al, pp. 372–378) and one on the prevalence and predictors of incapacity (Cairns et al, pp. 379–385). The authors find that the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT– T) can be used reliably to assess ca...

background and purpose: medical professional behavior includes the characteristics of devotion, integrity, compassion, good communication skills, respect, responsibility, excellence and leadership. evaluation plays an important role in identifying the professionalism of people and training. thus, this study was conducted to evaluate the professional behavior of clinical residents. methods: in t...

The Improved Generalized Diversity Index (IGDI) has been proposed as a tool that can be used to identify areas that have high conservation value and measure the ecological condition of an area. IGDI is based on the species relative abundances. This paper is concerned with particular attention is given to comparisons involving the MacArthur model of species abundances. The properties and perform...

Abilities associated with adjudicative competence were assessed among 927 adolescents in juvenile detention facilities and community settings. Adolescents' abilities were compared to those of 466 young adults in jails and in the community. Participants at 4 locations across the United States completed a standardized measure of abilities relevant for competence to stand trial (the MacArthur Comp...

This excellent book is divided into two sections; the first eight chapters are concerned with the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) and the remaining three chapters and appendix are devoted to the CAT (Children's Apperception Test). It is a highly specialised volume, meeting the need for a current and comprehensive review of these two tests. Because of this, it is unlikely to be of much practica...

Photomosaic arranges many small photographs to represent a large image. Our study applies the photomosaic to a photograph browser CAT. Our implementation displays photomosaic while zooming out, and individual photographs while zooming in. Here, many photograph browsing software displays a set of photographs in the order of their times. To maintain this order of photographs, our photomosaic gene...

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This study examines the relationship between depression, as measured by four indices, and jailed women defendants' adjudicative competence ("competency to stand trial"). Competence was assessed by the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool-Criminal Adjudication (MacCAT-CA) in three areas: understanding, reasoning, and appreciation. Depression was not significantly correlated with any competence m...