Expert Witness Work
Dorset Psychological Services have experience in providing comprehensive psychological expert witness reports for court in the following areas:
Violence
• Assessment of violence and sex offending, including mitigating factors.
• Assessment of Personality Disorder
• Assessment of mental illness and mental disorder.
• Assessment of suitability for treatment.
• Assessment of prisoners on Indeterminate Public Protection Orders for the Parole Board.
• Risk Assessment.
Child Protection
• Assessment and treatment of parents involved in non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, emotional abuse or neglect, including assessment of risk and prognosis for treatment.
• Assessment of Personality Disorder, mental disorder, Learning Disability, risk of re-offending, mitigating factors and prognosis for treatment.
Psychological Functioning
• Psychological assessment of intellectual functioning, level of mental impairment (learning disability).
• Assessment of suggestibility in cases of "false confession".
• Psychological effects of abuse, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• Psychological assessment of mental health problems.
• Assessment of mental illness and mental disorder.
• Psychometric testing routinely conducted in the majority of cases.
• Assessment under the Mental Capacity Act (e.g. capacity to instruct legal proceedings).
Personal Injury
• Assessment and treatment of the psychological consequences of trauma including: victims of crime; medcial negligence, occupational injury; terrorism; road traffic and other transport accidents.
Sexual Offending
• Assessment and treatment of sexual offenders against adults or children in either criminal or care proceedings, including mitigating factors: assessment of risk of re-offending and prognosis for treatment.
We also provide specialist assessment/treatment for individuals suffering from a variety of difficulties/conditions:
· Abuse/Trauma
· Alcohol and Substance Problems
· Anger
· Anxiety Disorders
· Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
· Bereavement
· Bipolar Disorder
· Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
· Depression
· Eating Disorders
· Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
· Panic Disorder
· Personality Disorder
· Phobias
· Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
· Relationship Problems
· Schizophrenia
· Self Esteem Issues
· Self Harm
· Sexual Problems
· Sleep Problems
· Social Anxiety Disorder