Attorneys, mental health professionals, hospitals, employers, and schools often ask psychologists to evaluate a person. In a legal setting, this request is to provide expert opinions on a variety of court matters or to help attorneys represent their clients and to help judges and juries make decisions about various psycho-legal issues.
The basis for this testimony is typically the psychological evaluation. A standard psychological evaluation usually involves clinical interviews, psychological testing, and collateral data (information obtained from a third party.) The inclusion of psychological testing is often regarded as the hallmark of these evaluations and differentiates a psychological evaluation from evaluation performed by other mental health evaluators. Relevant scientific literature All of this information is integrated to answer the referral questions and are the basis of her expert opinion.
Some of the areas in which I perform evaluations are:
- Child Custody Evaluations/Best Interest Evaluations/Parenting Time Evaluations
- Relocation/Removal Evaluations
- Risk Assessments
- Settlement Based Evaluations
- Parental Fitness Evaluations
- Bonding Evaluations
- Child Abuse Evaluations
- Adoption Readiness Evaluations
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Competency Evaluations
- Detection of Malingering–Symptom Magnification
- Disability Determinations
- Employment Discrimination or Harassment
- Guardianship
- Independent (medical) Examinations (IME’s) (Psychological)
- Malpractice
- Personal Injury Litigation
- Diagnostic Assessment
- Treatment Planning
- Dementia Assessment
- Personality/Emotional Tests