Essays on Forensic Psychologist

There are various guidelines in the United States of America that decide how tests may be used in legal cases. The three main systems are statutory, case law, and the one that corresponds to the American Psychological Association. Even though these three have the same principles and main points, they differ on their approach and the stipulations that they set for practitioners. The more legal aspects of these procedures respond to either statute or case law. Mental health standards vary from state to state, including the competency to be applicable for capital punishment. There are federal statutes that must ...

Two needs for forensic assessment in civil forensic cases

Two important types of civil cases in which forensic psychological assessment may be required are worker’s compensation and custody hearings. In the former, the client is usually asking for some sort of monetary compensation for damages that have been caused by their employees. In the second one, there is usually an underage person whose custody is being determined by the courts, as his or her parents are going through a process of separation. Obviously, these are caricatures of the complex real cases that real forensic psychologists have to face. Nevertheless, they will serve as models to explain the ...

ABSTRACT

Forensic psychology has grown in popularity and the assessments these professionals conduct can be incredibly beneficial in determining a criminal defendant or offender’s mental stability, ability to stand trial and the level of threat they may represent. That being said in order for forensic psychologists to provide these assessments it is required that a number of the Ethical Standards Code, which is the core structure of modern psychological practice, be augmented or adapted to allow the psychologist to be beholden to the law enforcement who hires them and not directly to the subject; they must be able to ...

Voluntary status is a type of civil commitment where a person assigns themselves to a psychiatric holding. The law allows a person, above 18 years, who believes being held in such a holding would be useful to be allowed a voluntary admission (Disability Rights Ohio). In such a situation, a person signs an application form for the voluntary status, which is later approved by the hospital staff on whether or not to grant admission. I believe this commitment is more superior since a person can identify changes in their thought patterns. For instance, if they have suicidal thoughts it ...

The Chapter 15 of Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders, Seventh Edition, DSM-5 Update provides very interesting information to me. Reading chapter 15 has enabled me to have an insight of the general principles of APA (American Psychological Association), and they are five. The ideals direct psychologists towards superior ethical standards of their profession. The first principle explains ...

Forensic psychology may be defined as the application of psychology to the system of criminal justice. Forensic psychologists search deeply and laboriously into the vast perspectives of psychology and apply them to the system of criminal justice. These issues weave together the topics of law and psychology; they are also essential to the forensic psychology discipline. The knowledge of forensic psychology is used in different forms. These forms include treatment of mentally ill offenders, analysis of the behavior and intent of the offender, and their practice within the civil arena (Study House, 171).

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Involuntary civil commitment is a civil case area focusing on the commitment of individuals to assisted treatment in the case of mental illness and conditions posing a threat to the individual or others. The selected area focuses on commitment to prevent an individual from suicide attempts. When the person poses a risk to his/her wellbeing, his/her liberty can be taken away until proper treatment occurs; during commitment, the individual receives psychological treatment through the help of a forensic psychology professional. It occurs in an institutional environment with limited risks. The law defines a situation requiring commitment based on suicide risk as a substantial risk ...

Forensic psychology

Sexual harassment Sexual harassment, in all its forms, is a serious crime punishable by law. These acts of harassment include unwelcome sexual advances, soliciting sexual favors to facilitate career advancement and any physical or verbal conduct that is of a sexual nature. The victims or the harassers can be either a man or a woman contrary to common belief that women are in most cases the victims. The victim may not necessarily be of the opposite sex as the harasser. Harassers are, usually, any one from a supervisor, a colleague in the office or an outsider and the victim of sexual harassment can be a ...

Introduction

Forensic psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on application of psychology to the criminal justice system (Fulero & Wrightsman, 2009). Psychology helps criminologists and people responsible for dispensing justice, to a greater extent in directly understanding and prediction of the human behavior. Judges and juries consult with forensic psychologists to gain understanding on why defendants behave in a certain manner. Forensic psychologists, therefore play many important roles in helping resolve cases in a court of law. Their services are very important and guide the proceedings and rulings made before a court of law. Generally, they are called upon to testify in trials as ...

Human behaviour is a complex topic because it is determined by various biological, social, and psychological factors. Depending on the factors influencing behaviour, a human being may act in a certain way without knowing why they had acted in such a manner. In Brain on Trial, David Eagleman explains the relationship that exists between neuroscience and criminal acts, and how this information can be used to build a better society with a justice system that is not ignorant of the facts of advances in brain science (121-123). This information can better equip those in the justice system to understand better why crimes occur and may ...

Forensic Psychology and the Law/Criminal Profiling

Introduction Forensic psychology is a field that provides a connection between criminal justice practices and psychology. Such criminal justice practices include criminal profiling, interrogation of suspects, the interviewing of witnesses and the sentencing of criminals. A forensic psychologist is expected to understand and apply criminal law in justice practices to ensure impartiality in decision-making. Criminal profiling involves an analysis of the background of an offender, to provide the relevant and required information about them. A wrong analysis of a criminal’s profile may result into a conviction of an innocent individual. There is, therefore, a need for the application of psychology to prevent ...

Abstract

This essay discusses the various causes of juveniles committing murder and looks at the possibility that some children are born with a predisposition towards violence and murder. Research has thrown up that there is a wide range of possible causes, some of which can – alone or in combination – trigger the ensuing violence. Causes that occur frequently and that therefore figure prominently in the results of studies are poor academic performance and school truancy, leading to the individuals concerned mixing with the wrong crowd and perhaps getting into trouble as a result, at the same time missing out on the school environment and ...

Psychology

Psychology In terms of content and outlooks, psychology is a very diverse discipline. Although psychology is a scientific discipline, it has philosophical roots. The fact that the American Psychological Association (APA) has 54 divisions is proof of the diverse nature of psychology. Each of these divisions addresses a different outlook of psychology (Plante, 2010). It is because of this unparalleled diversity that psychologists are able to expand in areas of assessment, diagnosis, and explanation. Due to its diverse nature, psychology encompasses various areas and subfields. Today, psychology can be applied and is valued in numerous fields. It has been successfully applied ...

The repressed memory

Repression is an occurrence that has found many faces to hide in. There are various factors that can contribute to a repressed memory. For example, in the case of the Japanese-Americans during and after the World War II, it is noted that there was a great deal of documented repression that masqueraded as social control structure by the American government that brought great damage later oni. It is also noted that due to parents’ tendency to be overly dominating over their children, these children tend to develop memory repression and their views and other apparent issue that affect their lives remain ...