ETHICAL ISSUES IN CONDUCTING FORENSIC EVALUATIONS

ETHICAL ISSUES IN CONDUCTING . FORENSIC EVALUATIONS . Karen C. Kalmbach Phillip M. Lyons Sam Houston State University UNIQUE NATURE OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH. PRACTICE. The role of the FORENSIC mental health professional (MHP) often differs sub- stantially from that of the typical clinician. These differences bear directly on the ETHICAL delivery of services (Canter, Bennett, Jones & Nagy, 1994; Heilbrun, 2001, 2003). For the therapist, the client is the individual presenting for treatment; in FORENSIC EVALUATIONS this is rarely the case (cf. Green- berg & Shuman, 1997). This distinction carries with it important ramifications for informed consent or disclosure as well as the con- trol and use of information obtained during the course of the evaluation .

The content of the clinical forensic interview tends to be much more circumscribed as it is focused narrowly on information perti-nent to the relevant psycholegal question to be answered (e.g., mental state at time of offense, competency to stand trial), and careful consideration must be given to the influence of multicul-

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