CONCEPT Continuing & Professional Studies, Palo Alto University

Describe why civil capacities are typically less well-defined than criminal competencies and the extra efforts examiners should make when assessing civil capacities in response

Describe predicate impairment(s) that should be present if any opinion of impaired capacity is going to be offered

Describe key components of good civil capacity evaluations and the reports that summarize them

Describe errors that examiners are likely to make when conducting civil capacity evaluations and writing reports summarizing them

Describe the law defining the capacities to testify, execute a will, manage finances, and make health care decisions, and identify and employ resulting strategies for valid assessment of these psycholegal constructs

Describe rights that are often at issue in the context of guardianship/conservatorship proceedings and identify strategies for valid assessment of these rights

Describe “undue influence” as it applies to matters of legal decision making, and identify indicators of it