1. Disrupting Our Academic Communication Style -- 2. Setting the Truth on Fire: General Testifying Strategies -- 3. Relationship with the Attorney -- 4. Establishing Credentials and Person Centered Credibility -- 5. Relationship with the Jury -- 6. Social Pragmatics of Testifying -- 7. Jargon -- 8. Direct Examination -- 9. Creating Access to Assessment Methods and Results -- 10. Visuals -- 11. Performance and Symptom Validity -- 12. Concussion -- 13. Specific Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders -- 14. Cognitive Development, Premorbid Function, and Intellectual Function -- 15. Cross Examination -- 16. Relationship with Other Experts -- 17. Testifying in a Diverse World -- 18. Depositions -- 19. Preparation for Court and Managing Anxiety on the Stand -- 20. Specific Testifying Situations: Nonjury, Records Reviews, Fact Witnesses, Capital Cases -- 21. Reports -- 22. Explaining Statistics -- 23. Training.
Summary:
Following the success of Feedback That Sticks (Oxford, 2013), Karen Postal demonstrates, through the words of forensic experts, how to translate complex, highly technical neuropsychological and psychological information for jurors in a way that is engaging, understandable, and (quoting Faulkner) sets the truth on fire. Testimony That Sticks shares the fruits of four years of in-depth interviews with over 70 forensic neuropsychologists and psychologists, as well as attorneys and judges, presenting what experts say on the stand: how they use compelling analogies, metaphors, and succinct explanations.
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