Forensic Evaluations
Clinical evaluations for your legal proceedings.
Serving Greater Los Angeles
Conservatorship Evaluations
Capacity Evaluations
Forensic Evaluation + Testimony
Competency Evaluations
Mitigation Evaluations
Fitness for Duty Evaluations
Conservatorship Evaluations
Are you worried about a mentally ill family member that is unable to make healthy and stable life decisions because of their serious mental illness? It can be heartbreaking to watch your child, partner, or parent suffer from the symptoms of severe mental illness. Do you have a family member in need of a legal conservatorship? We evaluate their competency and help support your family member’s long-term mental health.
The difficult truth: Those that have lost the ability to care for themselves due to their severe mental illness often require the legal action of conservatorship in order to take medications, make daily decisions, and support overall mental health.
What’s a conservatorship?
A conservatorship is a legal responsibility to take care of the legal, medical, or day-to-day affairs of a person that is found to be “gravely disabled.” This can happen when a person is suffering from such profound mental health symptoms that they can no longer take care of their most basic needs.
Those suffering from cognitive or memory impairments that prevent them from reasonably being able to care for themselves on a daily basis might also benefit from conservatorship
What’s involved in a conservatorship evaluation?
Conservatorship evaluations are customized to each person in need which can involve evaluating a person before they leave an institution where they are receiving care or being escorted to the office for an in-person evaluation.
The evaluation typically involves an interview and a shortlist of cognitive tasks. After the evaluation, a written report is submitted to the court for a legal proceeding to determine the person’s need for a conservatorship.
Capacity Evaluations
What are capacity evaluations?
Capacity Evaluations include a set of tests that measure how well a person performs over a variety of settings or functions. These are sometimes known as Functional Capacity Evaluations and are a way of measuring how a person performs specific tasks.
Who needs a capacity evaluation?
Employers
Capacity Evaluations are sometimes required by employers or courts to measure how well a person can function under certain circumstances. If you are applying to a job that requires specific skills, stress management, or approach to tasks, then you might be required to participate in a capacity evaluation. The good news is that those types of evaluations are typically financially covered by your potential employer.
Attorneys + Courts
Sometimes capacity evaluations are required by a court in determining whether a person can function under certain circumstances. If that’s the case for you, your attorney can set up the capacity evaluation with one of our psychologists.
Mitigation Evaluations
What is a mitigation evaluation?
Mitigation evaluations help you when seeking a reduced sentence in your legal case. These are risk assessments to help the court determine if the individual being evaluations is a good candidate for a less severe sentence.
What is involved in a mitigation evaluation?
An extensive psychological evaluation will determine if you meet the criteria for mitigation in your legal proceeding. In order to do this, you will take part in a clinical interview as well as extensive psychological tests that determine your risk factors for repeating the convicted crime or participating in other negative risk-taking behaviors. After the evaluation, an extensive report of the findings will be submitted to the appropriate persons (this is typically attorneys and the court).