The Courtroom Psychologist:

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June 2024
- Jun 5, 2024 The Role of a Forensic Psychologist: Insights from Dr. Kathryn Ambeau
- Jun 21, 2024 Keeping Junk Science Out of the Courtroom: The Role of Forensic Psychologists
- Jun 29, 2024 When Children Kill Their Parents: The Work of Kathleen Heide and Key Psychological Distinctions
July 2024
- Jul 12, 2024 The Uneven Legacy of Atkins: How States Vary in Interpreting Intellectual Disability in Death Penalty Cases
- Jul 22, 2024 The Unpleasantries of Expert Testimony: What the Textbooks Don’t Cover
August 2024
- Aug 10, 2024 Munchausen by Proxy in the Courtroom: Diagnosing Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another
- Aug 15, 2024 Understanding Battered Woman Syndrome and PTSD: A Forensic Perspective
September 2024
- Sep 22, 2024 The Controversy Surrounding "A Reasonable Degree of Psychological Certainty" in Forensic Testimony
October 2024
- Oct 2, 2024 De Facto Expert vs. Objective Evaluating Expert: The Role of Forensic Psychologists in Court
- Oct 15, 2024 The Crucial Role of Causation in Emotional Damages Assessments
November 2024
- Nov 1, 2024 Why Terms Like "Rape Trauma Syndrome" and "Child Sexual Abuse Syndrome" Should Stay Out of the Courtroom
- Nov 22, 2024 Understanding the Distinctions Between Competency to Stand Trial and Sanity Evaluations
December 2024
- Dec 31, 2024 Fitness for Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement and High-Risk Professions: What They Are and Why They Matter
January 2025
- Jan 2, 2025 “Once a Sex Offender, Always a Sex Offender?” Understanding Adolescent Sex Offending Through a Clinical Lens
- Jan 18, 2025 Understanding Malingering in Forensic Psychology: Recognizing and Assessing Fake Symptoms
February 2025
- Feb 1, 2025 The Importance of Third Party Data in Forensic Psychological Evaluations
- Feb 6, 2025 Why Psychologists Side-Eye the Myers-Briggs
March 2025
- Mar 17, 2025 Debunking the Myth of “Sex Addiction”
- Mar 18, 2025 When IQ Becomes a Life-or-Death Matter: The Forensic Psychology Behind Atkins v. Virginia
April 2025
- Apr 3, 2025 Keeping Junk Science Out of the Courtroom: Part Two – The Problem with DARVO
- Apr 22, 2025 When Ethics Clash with Convenience: Why Forensic Psychologists Must Protect Raw Test Data—Even When Others Don’t
May 2025
- May 1, 2025 Not Everyone You Dislike Is a Narcissist: The Misuse of Labels in the Courtroom
- May 1, 2025 Too Smart to Be Intellectually Disabled? Why Crime Scene Behavior Shouldn’t Determine Adaptive Functioning
- May 2, 2025 More Than the Crime Scene: How Forensic Psychology Informs Mitigation and Aggravation in Sentencing
June 2025
- Jun 1, 2025 Repressed Memories: Debunking the Dangerous Myth in Forensic Settings
- Jun 12, 2025 Choose Your Forensic Psychological Evaluator Wisely
July 2025
- Jul 1, 2025 Objective by Design: The Hidden Ethics Behind Forensic Payment
- Jul 2, 2025 Pleading Insanity: Myths vs. Realities in Courtroom Defense
August 2025
- Aug 1, 2025 The Profiler Myth: Why TV Criminal Minds Are More Fantasy Than Forensic
- Aug 2, 2025 The Missed Opportunity: How Attorneys Undervalue Forensic Psychology to Their Own Detriment
September 2025
- Sep 1, 2025 When Experts Go Rogue: Ethical Responses to Unethical Testimony in Forensic Psychology
- Sep 1, 2025 Breaking Legal Ground: My Role in the Landmark Catina Curley Case
October 2025
- Oct 3, 2025 Why Online Sexual Offending Differs from Contact Sexual Offending — and What That Means for Risk
- Oct 3, 2025 Understanding Loss of Consortium in Civil Cases: More Than Just Legal Language
- Oct 16, 2025 When Bad Data Go to Court: The Ethics of Invalid Psychological Testing
November 2025
- Nov 1, 2025 When Experts Cut Corners: A Forensic Psychologist’s Perspective on Upholding Standards
December 2025
- Dec 1, 2025 Why Forensic Psychologists Cannot Be Treatment Providers for the Individuals They Evaluate
January 2026
- Jan 6, 2026 Allegiance Bias in Forensic Evaluation: Why Expert Objectivity Is Critical and How to Guard Against Bias
February 2026
- Feb 1, 2026 Elizabeth Loftus and Eyewitness Testimony: How Memory Science Reshaped Forensic Psychology
June 2026
- Jun 7, 2026 Competency to Stand Trial vs. Sanity: Understanding Two Distinct Legal Questions

Competency to Stand Trial vs. Sanity: Understanding Two Distinct Legal Questions

Competency to stand trial and insanity are often confused, but they address different legal questions. Learn how forensic psychologists evaluate competency, criminal responsibility, and the role of mental illness in criminal proceedings.

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