Journal article
Principles of Forensic Mental Health Assessment: Implications for Neuropsychological Assessment in Forensic Contexts
Assessment (Odessa, Fla.), v 10(4), pp 329-343
Dec 2003
PMID: 14682479
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Abstract
Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) is a form of evaluation performed by a mental health professional to provide relevant clinical and scientific data to a legal decision maker or the litigants involved in civil or criminal proceedings. SuchFMHAevaluations can be further specialized when the clinical and scientific data are primarily neuropsychological. This paper provides an adaptation of 29 recently derived principles of FMHA (Heilbrun, 2001) that have been described in two forms: general guidelines for application in FMHA, and guidelines for application to neuropsychological assessment in forensic contexts. Each principle is described, and the general guideline is compared with the highly specialized neuropsychological guideline. In this way, the applicability of such FMHA principles to forensic neuropsychological assessment is described.
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- Title
- Principles of Forensic Mental Health Assessment
- Creators
- Kirk Heilbrun - Drexel University, Villanova School of LawGeoffrey R Marczyk - Widener UniversityDavid DeMatteo - Treatment Research Institute at the University of PennsylvaniaEric A Zillmer - Drexel UniversityJustin Harris - Drexel University, Villanova School of LawTiffany Jennings - Widener University
- Publication Details
- Assessment (Odessa, Fla.), v 10(4), pp 329-343
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000186983600004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-2142804678
- Other Identifier
- 991014877761704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Clinical