Learning Forensic Assessment

Because practitioners tend to gravitate toward specialization in adults or juveniles or civil forensic assessments, this book is organized accordingly around five broad topic areas: Professional and Practice Issues, Adult Forensic Assessment, Juvenile Forensic Assessment, Civil Forensic Assessment, and Communicating Your Findings.Each chapter begins with a strong teaching and learning foundation. The latter part of each chapter is assessment specific, covering available assessment measures and approaches to assessment. The authors go well beyond simple descriptions of assessment measures and provide a conceptual discussion of the evaluation process that helps the reader understand how assessment measures fit into the overall evaluation process. The evaluation component is geared toward assessing the important aspects of the construct as laid out in the early part of each chapter. Each chapter then concludes with a case example to illustrate the measures and techniques described.Jackson, Rebecca is the author of 'Learning Forensic Assessment ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780805859232 and ISBN 0805859233.