Principles of Forensic Mental Health Assessment: Implications for Neuropsychological Assessment in Forensic Contexts

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 cl...

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Published in:Assessment (Odessa, Fla.) Fla.), 2003-12, Vol.10 (4), p.329-343
Main Authors: Heilbrun, Kirk, Marczyk, Geoffrey R., DeMatteo, David, Zillmer, Eric A., Harris, Justin, Jennings, Tiffany
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decision Making
Documentation
Expert Testimony
Forensic Psychiatry - methods
Forensic Psychiatry - standards
Guidelines as Topic
Humans
Jurisprudence
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Neuropsychological Tests - standards
Practice Guidelines as Topic
United States
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1073-1911
1552-3489
DOI:10.1177/1073191103258591