Thought Leadership

This discussion focuses on the challenges associated with psychological testing in the forensic arena. In a recently published study of assessment tools used by psychologists, Dr. Tess Neal and her colleagues reviewed over 300 psychological assessment instruments...

It was 4:31AM on January 17, 1994, when the world began to implode. At that moment, with furniture and the bed in which my wife and I had been sleeping shaking violently, and with the deafening sounds of objects falling, glass breaking and wood twisting under pressure...

Second to mental health providers and physicians, lawyers are the next most likely professional group to encounter clients experiencing significant emotional challenges. Family law attorneys regularly interact with distraught clients as individuals undergoing divorce...

We of course are in unprecedented times as global society copes with the impacts of this pandemic. The CDC has released its directives supplemented by the President’s 15 Days to Slow the Spread guidelines. We all pray that these tactics, and those likely to come soon,...

I previously reviewed some of the challenges of measuring the severity of psychiatric injuries, and I recommended that IME examiners attempt to minimize reliance on subjective impressions, avoid making inferences from clients’ emotional symptoms and personality...

One of the greatest challenges in mental health assessment, especially in the forensic arena, revolves around the need to prevent and manage the potential introduction and influence of bias during the investigation process, including during the examination and data...