10. Ethical Issues in the Use of Psychological Testing in Forensic Assessment

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-175
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Psychological Testing ◽  
Forensic Assessment

Use of the Chestnut Ridge Inventory of Personality in Teaching Psychological Testing

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 1017-1018
Author(s):  
Ronald Jay Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Psychological Testing ◽  
Personality Inventory

A 100-item personality inventory may be used to illustrate administration, scoring, and intepretation of scores, etc., in a testing course, while avoiding potential ethical issues associated with novices' use of a standardized instrument.

Practical and ethical issues in teaching psychological testing.

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Rupert ◽  
Neal F. Kozlowski ◽  
Laura A. Hoffman ◽  
Denise D. Daniels ◽  
Jeanne M. Piette
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Psychological Testing

The use of Placebo Trials as Part of a Forensic Assessment

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Forensic Assessment ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Diagnostic Use ◽  
Clinical Methods ◽  
Clinical Cases

The detection of malingering in the context of forensic evaluations has received increasing attention in the literature, with more careful research and analyses of a variety of clinical methods being employed for that purpose. The author presents three clinical cases as examples of the use of placebo trials in the differential diagnosis of malingering, and discusses the validity of such trials as well as ethical issues raised by the use of placebos without informed consent. Suggested guidelines for the diagnostic use of placebos with forensic patients are presented.

Ethical Issues in the Forensic Assessment of Posttraumatic Symptoms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund G. Howe
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Forensic Assessment ◽  
The State ◽  
The Core ◽  
Posttraumatic Symptoms ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
Legal Contexts

This chapter examines the core challenges and questions that forensic psychiatrists may encounter when making determinations of factors such as criminal responsibility and disability. It begins by addressing considerations that trauma-related symptoms and behaviors might raise in all legal contexts, for example, whether all the diagnostic criteria should be required to render diagnosis in a medico-legal assessment. It then discusses ethical and legal questions that may arise during evaluation for criminal responsibility and disability. It also considers the idea that, although psychiatrists conducting forensic exams have historically viewed themselves as adopting a different allegiance (i.e., to the state or the court), they might instead seek to find ways to retain their first loyalty to patients. Arguments justifying such alteration and examples of where—if not how—this might be operationalized are noted in the final section of this chapter.

The role of psychological testing in forensic assessment.

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk Heilbrun
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Testing ◽  
Forensic Assessment
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