Description
Book SynopsisAll the tips and tools you need to start, grow, and sustain a successful forensic psychology practice
Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice is the first book of its kind aimed at those mental health professionals and recent graduates interested in entering the growing and lucrative field of forensic psychology. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy guide provides you with tools and techniques for starting a thriving forensic psychology practice, or incorporating a forensic specialty into your current practice.
This comprehensive resource includes information on:
* The difference between clinical and forensic practice
* Advantages and disadvantages of forensic practice
* Preparing for forensic psychological practice
* Planning a forensic psychology business
* How to market your practice
* What lawyers look for in forensic psychologists as expert witnesses>
* Ethics, professional competence, and ri
Trade Review"Mart provides a great starting point for those interested in beginning their forensic psychology practice. This book is a helpful resource for licensed psychologists as well as graduate students and is a key tool for the preparation needed to begin and maintain a forensic psychology practice."
—April R. Bradley and Troy Ertelt (
PsycCRITIQUES, June 27, 2007)
Table of ContentsSeries Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. What is Forensic Psychology?
2. Is Forensic Psychological Practice.
3. Preparing for Forensic Psychological Practice.
4. The Business of Forensic Psychology.
5. Risk Management in Forensic Practice.
6. Performing Evaluations.
7. Testifying in Court and Depositions.
Appendix A: ABPP Work Sample: Competency to Stand Trial evaluation.
Appendix B: Sample Psychological Report: Competency to Stand trial Evaluation.
Appendix C: ABPP Work Sample: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Evaluation.
Appendix D: Sample Psychological report: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy Evaluation.
Appendix E: The Concise Child Custody Evaluation.
Appendix F: The Concise Approach to Child Custody Assessment.
Appendix G: the Niche Practice in Forensic Psychology.
References.
Index.
