Part 1: Take a lawyer's approach. What's your story?
Your key question
Your legal sandbox
Part 2: The PLAN (PsychologyLaw ANalysis) model. Step one: determine the expert's qualifications to testify
Step two: determine whether the expert's methods conform to relevant professional standards-methods reliability
Step three: evaluate the empirical and logical connections between the data arising from the expert's methods and the expert's social science-based conclusions-reasoning reliability
Step four: gauge the connection between the expert's conclusions and opinions
Part 3: Issues when examining experts: step-by-step. How qualified is qualified?
When experts rely on experts
Consulting versus testifying experts : is there a problem?
Step one: Determine the expert's qualifications to testify
Retained experts and their testimony: hired guns or credible?
Your educative expert : how do you do that?
Step two: Determine whether the expert's mehtods conform to relevant professional standards : methods reliability
Psychological evaluations : more than just testing
Competent interviews : can you tell?
Psychological tests and catching lies
Make sense of computer-based test reports
Collateral information : uses and abuses
Let the records show
Peer into counseling's black box
Manage experience-based testimony
Step three: Evaluate the empirical and logical connections between the data arising from the expert's methods and the expert's social science-based conclusions : reasoning realibility
Mental health testimony = conclusions + opinions
It's research, but is it relevant?
DSM-5 diagnoses : what's the problem?
Recognize and challenge experts' judgment biases
Step four: Guage the connections between the expert's conclusions and opinions
The power of words
A reasonable degree of certainty : magic words?
Recommendations : where the rubber meets the road
Part 4: The PLAN model in action. Daubert's reliability toolbox
Depositions : should you?
Courtroom examinations in Daubert hearings and at trial
The Daubert hearing : challenge or not?
The Daubert hearing : who has the burden?
The Daubert challenge
Defending Daubert : feature Daubert's flexible side
The trial examination
Summing up : five keys to manage mental health testimony.