Forensic Psychology Expert Witnesses
What is a forensic psychology expert witness?
Forensic psychology expert witness candidates typically have an advanced degree and background as a clinical psychologist. Forensic psychology is a discipline that supports both civil case and criminal matters, and a forensic psychologist should understand fundamental law, as well as be able to effectively communicate evidence with legal professionals. The selected expert may be a member of an industry organization, such as the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), or the National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers (NAPPP).
What types of cases require a forensic psychology expert witness?
Examples of matters that may require the expertise of a forensic psychology expert witness include those relating to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), standards of care, a child custody evaluation, competency as it relates to a criminal case, and health insurance disputes. Forensic psychologists can also assist law enforcement with criminal profiling. To aid legal professionals, a psychologist can help with jury selection, development of case strategy, and expert witness preparation. Prior to accepting a case, it is important that a forensic psychologist consider his or her ethical guidelines put in place for the field of forensic psychology.
What litigation support work might a forensic psychology expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services by a forensic psychology professional may include psychological assessments, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, deposition testimony and courtroom testimony. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the lead attorney may request a forensic psychologist with prior expert testimony experience. Cahn Litigation is frequently called upon to identify a mental health professional, including those specializing in forensic psychology.
Whether the case involves traumatic stress, mental capacity, a psychological evaluation, neuropsychology, personality disorder, or psychological testing, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a forensic psychology expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Forensic Psychology Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Forensic Psychology experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Forensic Psychology landscape.
Expert Witness #257985
This expert is a Clinical Psychologist with additional training in Neuropsychiatry. This expert's private practice provides services in Forensic Psychology, focusing on psychological evaluations in criminal, civil, and family court cases for private attorneys and law firms. This expert has testified in both State and Federal Courts. This expert also provides psychotherapy, diagnostic reports and neuropsychological evaluations. This expert has made numerous presentations at academic conferences and despite a long experience in the field, has kept up with continuing education.
Start Forensic Psychology Expert SearchExpert Witness #214160
This expert holds a master's degree and Ph.D. in experimental psychology as well as many years of experience in basic and applied research in psychophysics, cognitive science, perception, attention, reaction time, memory, human factors, aging, driver behavior, and related areas. This expert has testified in courts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore on matters involving issues such as human vision, warnings, product defects, visual evidence, and trips and falls. This expert's master's research was in learning and reaction time and this expert's Ph.D. dissertation was in human vision. This expert subsequently had postdoctoral fellowships in psychology and in physiological optics. This expert has also been a faculty member or research associate in psychology at several universities.
This expert's research experience includes many grant/contract awards, presentations and publications; grants from the National Eye Institute, National Science Foundation, National Science & Engineering Research Committee; over 70 presentations at scientific meetings and at safety conferences in the US, Canada and Europe; 100 publications in the areas of vision, visual search, electrophysiology, perception reaction time, human cognition, artificial intelligence and driver behavior. This expert is the principal author of a book which analyzes visual, cognitive and response factors in driver behavior based on data from basic science, human factors, and the driver research literature.
This expert has extensive prior litigation experience having served as both a testifying expert as well as a consulting expert, explaining complex scientific concepts in simple, layman's terms to non-experts. This expert can perform tests of visibility/perception under field conditions and analyze accidents to determine probable cause such as human factors, controls, warnings, visual design, Human Error Vs. Design Error and potential safety hazard.
Start Forensic Psychology Expert SearchExpert Witness #279297
This psychology expert holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and has held senior academic, clinical training, and trauma recovery center leadership roles at a university.
This expert is a member of several scientific organizations, including prominent behavioral therapy and traumatic stress studies associations. This expert's authorship includes over 100 publications and over 250 presentations in stress, PTSD, and anxiety disorders. This expert's primary research interests and clinical specializations include treatment of stress, anxiety disorders, affective disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder. This expert is recognized as a federal and state forensic expert and has served as a consultant Psychologist in forensic matters before local, State, Superior, and Federal courts.
This expert has served as an expert witness and consultant in over 140 forensic criminal and civil cases and provides forensic services including assessment, reports, and testimony in a variety of criminal and civil matters. Forensic experience includes PTSD as part of a formal mental health defense.
Start Forensic Psychology Expert SearchExpert Witness #294823
This clinical psychologist expert is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in forensics and is board-certified in forensic psychology through a professional psychology board. This expert completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology and serves as an adjunct professor at a university.
This expert's interest in standards of care related to suicide risk assessment began in graduate school after the death of a therapy client to suicide. This led to a shift in research focus to client suicide and to revisions of a graduate program's policies related to suicide risk assessment and management.
This expert has given presentations to peers and at a professional conference related to suicide risk assessment. This expert's professional career has primarily taken place in a forensic inpatient psychiatric facility, where this expert has conducted numerous suicide risk assessments, including comprehensive recommendations for the management of suicidality. This expert also supervises pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees in suicide risk assessment and management issues in inpatient settings.
Start Forensic Psychology Expert SearchExpert Witness #297050
This forensic psychology expert is a psychologist in private practice with experience in clinical and forensic psychology involving adults and children, holds a clinical professor role in a neuropsychology postdoctoral program at a prestigious university, and has published extensively in forensic psychology.
This expert has experience consulting with Juvenile and Family Courts and performing evaluations of children, adults, and adolescents involving psychological needs, abuse, and neglect.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Forensic Psychology Expert SearchExpert Witness #304186
This undue influence expert holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Counseling Psychology and has maintained a private practice for over 20 years.
A major part of this expert's work involves post hoc undue influence evaluations. This expert has conducted over 2,000 evaluations, including over 100 evaluations of testamentary capacity, contractual capacity, and undue influence. This expert has presented multiple times on issues related to guardianship, conservatorship, will contests, testamentary capacity, contractual capacity, capacity to direct counsel, and undue influence, with many presentations qualifying as Continuing Legal Education for elder law attorneys.
This expert has testified under oath over 125 times for plaintiffs, petitioners, defendants, and respondents, and has consistently been qualified as an expert. This expert has been qualified to provide expert testimony on both the psychological and legal aspects of undue influence, including undue influence law in California, Colorado, Mississippi, New York, and Wyoming.
In addition to private practice, this expert served on the faculty of a university for over 10 years, teaching graduate-level classes in psychological assessment, cognitive and neuropsychological assessment, and the ethical and legal practice of psychology. This expert has written a number of books and has studied and written about undue influence statutes and case law in all 50 states, including a recent book on undue influence and forensic psychology.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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