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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Forensic Psychologists"”.
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Forensic Psychologists: Vulnerable Adjuncts of Penal Power
This thesis explores the experiences of forensic psychologists who are employed within the contemporary prisons of England and Wales. It is concerned with their occupational morality and perspectives, their experiences of power, as well as the emotional impact of their prison work. Since 1992 there …
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Competency for Execution: Factors Affecting the Judgement of Forensic Psychologists
… health professionals. It has been suggested that forensic psychologists who offer such services to the courts may tend to approach the problem of determining competency by diverse and unstandardized methods (Grisson, 1986). Heilbrun (1986) has questioned the effect of the psychologist's potential …
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BURNOUT IN THE FIELD OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES
<p>Forensic psychologists are at a heightened risk for encountering vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, all of which influence quality and continuity of care (Sansbury et al., 2015). The current literature review aims to discuss how burnout relates specifically to the field of …
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The objectivity demand: experiences and behaviors of psychologists in capital case evaluations
… the effect of human bias and error in clinical forensic evaluations. Four specific aims were achieved: 1) integrating quantitative and qualitative methods in compiling descriptive information about forensic psychologists' occupational socialization processes, awareness of biases, capital …
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Contextualized Risk Assessment in Clinical Practice: Utility of Actuarial, Clinical, and Structured Clinical Approaches to Predictions of Violence.
… to be an important yet controversial role of forensic psychologists. A key debate is the relative effectiveness of assessment methods. Specifically, actuarial methods (see Quinsey et al., 1998 for a review) have been compared and contrasted to clinical and structured clinical methods (see e.g. …
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Impact of Parental Interference on Children in High Conflict Divorce
… debate among mental health professionals in the forensic psychology field. Although over the past thirty years, some empirical studies have been conducted regarding the long-term psychological impact of adults that experienced parental interference as children, few studies have examined the …
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"It's a kind of a privilege": clinicians' experiences of delivering community-based group therapy to men who have sexually offended - an interpretative phenomenological study
… methods, 6 participants, all qualified clinical/forensic psychologists and psychotherapists, were interviewed using semi-structured format. Data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA; Smith et al., 2009) to gain psychological insight into their professional experiences. …
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Child Abuse Allegations in High Conflict Divorce
… by two private Court-appointed licensed clinical-forensic psychologists. The parents in these families were already divorced or undergoing divorce proceedings. Parents completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory – 2nd Edition (MMPI-2) and Parenting Stress Index (PSI). Results showed …