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Principles of Forensic Mental Health Assessment

Implications for Neuropsychological Assessment in Forensic Contexts

Kirk Heilbrun

Drexel University, Villanova School of Law

Geoffrey R. Marczyk

Widener University

David DeMatteo

Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania

Eric A. Zillmer

Drexel University

Justin Harris

Drexel University, Villanova School of Law

Tiffany Jennings

Widener University

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.

Key Words: forensic mental health assessment • FMHA • neuropsychology

Assessment, Vol. 10, No. 4, 329-343 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191103258591
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