Ethical challenges in forensic psychology practice.

Gottlieb, Michael C.; Coleman, Alicia

doi:10.1037/13272-006

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“…First, we aim to discuss the complexity inherent in this specialty and, second, demonstrate how the competence model proposed by Falender and Shafranske (2004) can help those who want to work as forensic psychologists to do so in a competent fashion with requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes. (For a general discussion of forensic psychology ethics, see Gottlieb & Coleman, 2011. ) The definition of forensic psychology in the APA ( 2013) "Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology" given in the introduction to this chapter does not mean that every time a psychologist finds himself or herself in court or dealing with the legal system that he or she is practicing as a forensic psychologist.…”

Section: Forensic Consultationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At times, the conflicts can be serious, such as when a treating therapist renders an opinion as an expert in a proceeding (e.g., a custody recommendation) compared with times when the roles do not conflict at all, such as when a neuropsychologist testifies in court about the results of an assessment that he or she did for clinical reasons. For a general discussion of forensic psychology ethics, see Gottlieb and Coleman (2011).…”

Section: Professional Role Conflictsmentioning

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Forensic consultation.

Younggren¹,

Gottlieb²,

Boness³

2020

Consultation in Psychology: A Competency-Based Approach.

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F orensic psychology is a subfield of psychology defined by the American Psychological Association (APA; 2013) in "Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology" as "professional practice by any psychologist working within any subdiscipline of psychology (e.g., clinical, developmental, social, cognitive) when applying the scientific, technical, or specialized knowledge of psychology to the law to assist in addressing legal, contractual, and administrative matters" (p. 7). Forensic psychology helps judicial, administrative, and educational systems make decisions regarding questions when an interface with psychology is involved with legal issues (Neal, 2018). Generally, the psychologist assists to inform adjudication decisions. In this chapter, we use a competency-based approach to identify the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes for practice. Some issues addressed in this chapter concern the differentiation of forensic consultation from clinical or administrative and how forensic consultation differs from activities such as supervision, administration, direct care, or all of them. After a review of the literature, we conclude that almost all forensic practice is consultative and should only be conducted by those qualified to do so by training, education, experience, or all three. This conclusion may seem extreme to some; we now explain why we believe this to be the case.

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Section: Forensic Consultationmentioning

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Section: Professional Role Conflictsmentioning

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Forensic consultation.

Younggren¹,

Gottlieb²,

Boness³

2020

Consultation in Psychology: A Competency-Based Approach.

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“…The test user is responsible for test interpretations. In 2012, Gottlieb and Coleman [44] added that, in forensic mental health assessments, assessors must meet ''higher standards,'' such as those of Daubert [45] on the criteria of admissible science to court. They must be scientifically ''responsible,'' aside from not being biased or expressive of ''adversarial allegiance'' [46].…”

Section: Psychological Ethicsmentioning

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A broad ethics model for mental health practice

Young

2016

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health

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“…6-7) A related section on providing informed consent in assessment from Standard 9.03, informed consent in assessments, states the following: Psychologists inform persons with questionable capacity to consent or for whom testing is mandated by law or governmental regulations about the nature and purpose of the proposed assessment services, using language that is reasonably understandable to the person being assessed. (APA, 2017, p. 12) A bit of context is important to understand this issue (see Gottlieb & Coleman, 2012, for a fuller discussion). First, whether the examinee can reasonably provide informed consent is unknown-the same cognitive abilities necessary to provide this are likely to be similar to those questioned in an evaluation regarding, for instance, an examinee's ability to consent to a medical procedure or to make financial decisions.…”

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