"An effective psychological report written for forensic evaluations shares the same requirements for good report writing expected of all other psychological reports and further contains additional requirements unique to its forensic purpose." (From the essay #3 handout). The first topic I will be going over is showing the different way each evaluation can be unique. The second topic I will cover is good report writing in psychological reports.There are many different requirements unique to writing an evaluation. There is the psychiatric setting, in this setting there is more of a relationship with the client. By nature the psychologist would try to have open and trusting relationship. Since that is one of the goals of the psychologist, they would give recommendations that are more in-depth. Also the psychologist would use more DSM-IV classifications. Another example is in an educational setting. With this style the educational setting tend to focus on hard data. They give a large array of written test. The reason they prefer this is because it will give the court system something tangible. Which leads me to the legal context. A lawyer or courts calls in a forensicPsychologist to make an evaluation. The forensic psychologist is neutral through out the evaluation. They can not have open and trusting relationship. Usually in a case where the subject committed a crime he/she might want to say what ever they think the psychologist would want to hear, to make there sentence lighter. So a forensic psychologist must remain neutral. Also the forensic psychologist has to make an accurate evaluation because he has a lot of influence on what would happen to the subject in a court case. Now that you have an idea on how each evaluation is unique I will go into how to make a good evaluation. In order to start the evaluation you must answer this question, how did this client get into your office? Another thing you would want to find out what is the p...
