What is a Forensic Psychological Report for?

Forensic and Expert Psychology is one of the most important branches of psychology that exist, an essential discipline in judicial proceedings of all kinds, without which it would be very difficult to resolve some issues in civil proceedings and penalties.

The essential tool in Forensic Psychology is the Forensic Psychological Report, a document that must be understood if we want to know in depth the function of this branch of psychology. psychology that is used daily in various areas: work accidents, conflicts over the custody of children in divorces, assessment of the responsibility of those who have violated the law etc

if you want to know What does a Forensic Psychological Report consist of and what are its main functions?, keep reading.

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What is the Forensic Psychological Report?

The Forensic or Expert Psychological Report is a legal document that provides truthful, objective, and impartial information and that is presented in judicial proceedings

to help the judge make a certain decision in one direction or another. As its name indicates, it analyzes and synthesizes information related to psychological processes, for which the psychologist who prepares the report studies the specific case to write down its conclusions on the subject to be investigated: the mental health of the person who has caused damage to third parties, the parental capacities of someone who aspires to have custody of a child, the consequences generated by an accident at work or by an experience of mobbing etc.

This type of report is made following the scientific method and putting into practice, by the psychologist, all the knowledge and techniques of those available with which to collect and analyze information about how a person or several people behave and think, with or without disorders mental.

On the other hand, it should be noted that the completion of a Forensic Psychological Report by a psychologist does not make him "on the side" of the person who hires him. He does not act as a lawyer, but as a technician, and not only does he have no reason to provide information that fit with the arguments of the contracted party, but it would go against the code deontological

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The importance of a good Forensic Psychological Report, and what it is for

As has been indicated, the Forensic Psychological Report is an indispensable tool in all types of judicial proceedings, since its function is to help clarify the presence or absence of very specific explanatory elements that the judge sometimes ignores.

This document is made by a qualified forensic psychologist and is requested by a judge in a judicial proceeding when very specific technical knowledge is required in the field of psychology to demonstrate or not the existence of disorders, cases of abuse or mistreatment, psychological damage of various kinds, and other causes or consequences of the facts investigated.

The Forensic Psychological Report is used in different areas of law, whether in the civil, family, criminal, labor, social and minor, and in all of them it plays a fundamental role in the development of each. It is not in itself a test, but simply provides information that serves to add nuances to the rest of the elements contributed to the trial; it helps to create a prism from which to interpret what is being exposed in the process.

With the presentation of this report, the judge has a professional reference and a series of technical data with which he can prove or not the facts sustained through any of the arguments sustained by the parties involved in the judgment.

More specifically, the psychological elements that a Forensic Psychological Report assesses are: the presence or absence of partner abuse, the suitability of granting custody of children to a parent, situations of child sexual abuse, workplace or school bullying, psychological disabilities or serious psychological disorders of all Type.

As the implications of going through a judicial process are very important because they have a great capacity to affect people's lives, These types of reports can only be made by qualified psychology professionals., and therefore it is important to look for specialists with experience in this field.

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My name is Desiree Infant Knight and I am a psychologist and neuropsychologist with practice in Malaga.