Forensic Psychological Assessment in Immigration Court

Barton Evans, III

• 07 maart 2018
• 9781138657731

Samenvatting:

This book is a specialized guide to forensic evaluations for clinicians who work with immigrants, taking into account the psychological issues that extend beyond the state of the individual, including family dynamics, social context, and cross cultural concerns.

Forensic Psychological Assessment in Immigration Court is an essential specialized guide for psychologists and clinicians who work with immigrants. Immigration evaluations differ in many ways from other types of forensic assessments because of the psycholegal issues that extend beyond the individual, including family dynamics, social context, and cross-cultural concerns. Immigrants are often victims of trauma and require specialized expertise to elicit the information needed for assessment. Having spent much of their professional careers as practicing forensic psychologists, authors Evans and Hass have compiled a comprehensive text that draws on forensic psychology, psychological assessment, traumatology, family processes, and national and international political forces to present an approach for the effective and ethical practice of forensic psychological assessment in Immigration Court.