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- Abstrak
- Measures of Progress and Development in the Field
- Professional Organizations
- Publications
- Practice Standards
- Specialty guidelines for forensic psychologists
- APA practice guidelines
- Certification and Recognition of Advanced Practice
- State-sponsored credentialing
- Board certification
- Contemporary Developments of Significance
- Development of Specialty Training Programs
- APA Specialization in Forensic Psychology
- Instrument Development
- Types of assessment instruments used in forensic settings
- The explosion of forensic assessment instruments and forensically relevant instruments
- Organized psychology’s response
- Impact of Managed Care on Forensic Practice
- Development of Practice Standards
- Credentialing and Certification
- State credentialing
- Board certification
- The Absence of a Treatment Focus
- Future Directions: Developing Forensic Psychology in the Next Decade
- Summary and Conclusions
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Abstrak
In a 1987 American Psychologist article, Tom Grisso summarized the state of forensic psychological assessment, noted its limitations and potential, and offered suggestions for researchers and practitioners interested in contributing to its future. Since that time, there have been many important developments in the field of forensic psychology, as well as in clinical psychology more generally, some of which were anticipated and recommended by Grisso, and some of which were not. Forensic psychology is now at a crossroads, and the specialty must make an effort to respond to current challenges if it is to aid in the administration of justice by assisting legal decision makers. The need to distinguish between and identify levels of forensic knowledge and practice, establish guidelines for practice, educate legal consumers, and devote more attention to treatment issues in forensic contexts is highlighted.
During its 50-year existence, the field of forensic psychology has gone through considerable change. Although psychologists provided some clinical services in correctional, delinquency, and other forensic settings toward the end of the 19th century, service provision by psychologists in forensic settings was not significant until after the Second World War, when clinical psychology became clearly established as a profession and practice area. Beginning in the 1950s and continuing to the present, clinical and counseling psychologists have become integral to the provision of assessment and therapeutic services in correctional, delinquency, and other forensic settings.
Psychologists have provided therapeutic services in what could be described as forensic settings (e.g., juvenile justice programs, correctional institutions, and noncorrectional settings in which therapy services are provided to forensic populations such as...