Psychological Evaluation
New England Forensic Associates performs many different types of forensic, statutory, and clinical evaluations, each of which is tailored to the individual's specific needs and circumstances.
An initial intake assessment is conducted to determine evaluation and/or treatment needs and goals. During or after a course of treatment, follow-up psychological testing can be conducted to empirically assess the effeciveness of treatment.
In legal cases, psychological evaluation and testing can assist attorneys and The Courts in determining how to proceed with a particular case; addressing questions of competence to stand trial, criminal responsibility, or risk/dangerousness.
Evaluation post-adjudication can assist with appropriate assessment of risk and subsequent dangerousness classificiation, if necessary.
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessments are evaluations conducted to address a specific sexual or violence risk consideration and/or to make treatment recommendations.
Risk Assessments can include laboratory assessment of clinical disorders, sexual interest, and sexual arousal, as well as an average of 2-5 hours of clinical interviews, review of records, review of testing results, interpretation of such, and the final report writing.
Statutory Evaluation
NEFA provides competence and criminal responsibility evaluations as well as aid-in-sentencing evaluations. These evaluations can be conducted in our Arlington offices or in an institutional setting such as a hospital or prison.
Complete Forensic Psychosexual Evaluation
Complete Forensic Psychosexual Evaluations are often essential in preparing proper legal cases, designing treatment plans, or to make determinations about deviant behaviors.
Complete Evaluations include all aspects of a Risk Assessment as well as additional testing and interviews, as determined by the evaluator, geared to the special needs of each client. Such additional testing may include a full range of adult or juvenile actuarial inventories and other objective and projective psychological tests to address specific diagnostic problem areas (e.g. substance abuse, anger, trauma, anti-social personality and neurological deficits). A more extensive review of legal and medical records is also included in this type of evaluation.
Psychometric Assessment
NEFA maintains a fully-functional psychometric testing laboratory that is equiped to conduct the follwing assessments:
Sexual Interest Assessment
Abel Assessment for Sexual Interest (AASI-2 and AASI-3) for men, women, boys, and girls. Abel-Blasingame (ABID) Assessment for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities.
Sexual Arousal Assessment
Penile Plethysmograph (PPG) computerized assessment measures an individual's physiological response to a variety of normative and deviant stimulus groups.
Clinical Diagnostic and Personality Assessment
NEFA routinely provides a variety of objective and projective assessments, including adult and adolecent versions of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III and MACI) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2 & MMPI-A), as well as the Rorschach and the Thematic Aperception Test (TAT). NEFA also utilizes STATIC-99R, STATIC-2002R, MnSOST-R, and other actuarials as indicated.
Employment and Human Resources Screening
NEFA provides the Diana Screen to conduct employment screening for organizations where a current or prospective employee might come into contact with children in the course of his or her job. The Diana Screen is a tool that screens out individuals who pose a sexual risk to children.