Neuropsychological Services offers forensic evaluations, clinical assessment, diagnosis and recommended treatment to children & adolescents, adults. Forensic experience reaches from school board hearings to death penalty court cases. In depth forensic case analysis, client evaluations and highly effective expert testimony have determined positive outcomes in cases of all magnitudes.

Juvenile Probation Population:
Current Situation

•  In contrast to overwhelming evidence indicating an alarming prevalence of mental health disorders among juvenile offenders (55 - 92%), U.S. Department of Justice identification of assessments as a key element of prevention/treatment programs that “work” and a general call for development of comprehensive assessment protocols prior to identification of a disposition, placement or treatment, few such evaluation programs exist.

Juvenile Probation Population:
Existing Evaluations

• brief screening instruments
• symptom based (i.e., limited effort to identify underlying etiological factors)
• agency specific (i.e., internal surveys/questionnaires)
• lacking in normative data for comparison with peer groups (i.e., potentially biased)
• completed by agencies that also provide treatment thereby introducing a dual relationship or potential bias

Reliance upon brief, agency-specific
and biased evaluations are consistently associated with:

• Placement of children with psychiatric disorders in “boot camp” settings with resulting treatment failures
• Placement of children with conduct disorders in “mental health” centers with resulting treatment failures
• Wasted time and money secondary to inappropriate placements
• Wasted lives of children who are placed in inappropriate settings