Forensic Psychological Assessment in Practice

Corine de Ruiter is Professor of Forensic Psychology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Previously, she worked as Head of the Research Department of the Van der Hoevenkliniek, Forensic Psychiatric Centre in Utrecht, and as endowed Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Nancy Kaser-Boyd is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and she is on the Los Angeles County Superior Court Psychiatric Expert Panels in Criminal and Delinquency Court.

1. The forensic-clinical psychologist as expert in criminal court 2. Domestic estrangement and familicide 3. Neonaticide in a Young Immigrant Woman 4. A Firesetter in Longstay Forensic Care 5. Indecent Exposure, Exhibitionism and Other Paraphilias 6 Filicide or False Confession? 7. Domestic Violence: Evaluating the Effects of Intimate Partner Battering 8. An Adolescent Violent Offender: Avoiding Premature Labeling 9. Threat Assessment in Homicide/Suicide: The Duty to Warn 10. Mistakes or malpractice: Ethics in the Practice of Forensic Psychological Assessment 11. Forensic Report Writing: The Science and the Story 12. Providing Effective Expert Testimony