Forensic Interviewing In Criminal Court Matters

Forensic mental health assessment has essentially become synonymous with forensic psychological assessment. This necessary shift toward empirically grounded procedures has had the unfortunate by-product of diminishing the importance of the clinical interview in favor of procedures biased in the direction of rigid structure and statistical formulas. In contrast, the authors' approach to forensic mental health places the individual front and center in the assessment process. The need to treat the