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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. Additionally, the customary therapeutic alliance and typical assurances of confidentiality do not exist in a FORENSIC con- text.
KALMBACH & LYONS 263 based (as discussed elsewhere in this Issue; for Texas, see also Shuman, 1997). IDENTIFICATION OF CLIENT In the practice of traditional clinical psychology, identifica-
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