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Psychological assessment in forensic contexts
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Psychological assessment in forensic contexts

Kirk Heilbrun and Stephanie Brooks Holliday
APA handbook of testing and assessment in psychology, Vol. 2: Testing and assessment in clinical and counseling psychology
01 Jan 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/14048-016

Abstract

Best Practices Forensic Assessment Forensic Evaluation Forensic Psychology Psychological Assessment Psychology: Professional & Research
This chapter has three goals. First, we describe the relevant history and significant developments of psychological assessment in legal contexts. We focus particularly on the development of the new Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology (Committee for Revision of the Specialty Guidelines, 2011). Second, we describe the development of specialized measures and forensically relevant tests. This distinction was made nearly a decade ago (Heilbrun, Rogers & Otto, 2002) in a review through the 1990s. We update this review to include the decade from 2000 to 2009. Although certain clinical measures (e.g., the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) may also be used in the course of FMHA, the role of these instruments in FMHA is referenced elsewhere (for additional information, see Heilbrun et al. 2002). This chapter will focus on specialized measures developed and validated to measure constructs that are directly relevant in forensic assessment. Third, we assess the scientific support for various approaches to FMHA. In so doing, we rely particularly on two recent works—the first focusing on the available scientific literature (Skeem, Douglas, & Lilienfeld, 2009) and the second on a 20-volume series addressing best practice in FMHA. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

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