ABSTRACT
Perhaps the largest forensic population requiring treatment consists of criminal defendants who have been found incompetent to stand trial (Torrey et al. 2010). Since the landmark case of Jackson v. Indiana (1972) that prevents individuals from being denied due process by holding them for unconscionably long time periods with no hope of attaining trial competence, a fair amount of attention has been directed to ascertaining the factors that are most associated with ndings of incompetence, identifying who is likely to attain competence and in what period of time (Zapf 2013). Yet disturbingly little scholarly eort has been devoted to detailing model restoration programs or empirically deriving ecacious treatment modalities (Pinals 2005; Brinkley and DeMier 2009; Samuel and Michals 2011). Although much of competence restoration consists of the sound principles of mental health practices in general, there are aspects specic to competence restoration which require specialized training if the programs and interventions are to be eective, ecient, and adherent to legal requirements and ethical principles.
