title: [Testing the credibility of adults].
abstract: The various aspects of credibility studies are dealt with and it is pointed out that these are not only valid for expertises on witnesses in child and juvenile age but - although only in relatively rare cases - also for the question whether because of psychopathological conditions, mainly mental deficiency, acute and chronic alcohol abuse as well as after accidents, suicidal attempts or temporal lobe attacks, an ability or inhability to report on healthy persons in a regular manner is present. In his expertise on the soundness of mind, the forensic psychiatrist is confronted with the task to convey his findings or doubts in case of a psychopathological indication to the court.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003415:Crime; D005104:Expert Testimony; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation
vernacular_title: Zur Prüfung der Glaubwürdigkeit bei Erwachsenen.