Article 1 Flashcards
1
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All psychological services provides for the legal community are both ____ and ____.
A
- clinical
- forensic
2
Q
Clinical in nature…
A
-treating an individual who was emotionally traumatized by an incident
3
Q
Forensic in nature…
A
asked to provide a report to the court regarding…
- extent of trauma
- assessing psychological damage incurred
4
Q
The 3 types of courts are…
A
- family court
- civil court
- criminal court
5
Q
assessments/evaluations in family court include…
A
- child custody evaluations
- child abuse evaluations
- visitation risk assessments
- grandparent visitation evaluations
- adoption readiness evaluations
- mediation of parental conflicts about children
- assessing termination of parental rights
6
Q
assessments/evaluations in civil court include…
A
- workers comp evaluation
- assessment of emotional factors in sexual harassment
- personal injury evaluations
- civil competency evaluations
- IME second opinion evaluations
- psychological autopsies
7
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assessments/evaluations in criminal court include…
A
- adult pre-sentencing eval.
- juvenile pre-sentencing eval.
- juvenile probation eval.
- juvenile waiver eval.
- eval of juveniles accused of criminal acts
- eval credibility of child witnesses
- juvenile & adult sexual offenders eval
- competency & diminished capacity eval
