You are a clinical psychologist frequently asked to give expert opinion in court cases. As a scientific investigator, you consider factual accuracy of prime importance, a point of view reinforced by the high esteem you hold for your brother who is a police officer and your sister who is an attorney. So understandably, you are greatly perturbed by the glaring inconsistencies in a file you were handed on an allegedly sexually abused child. Now the court is asking for your assessment. What do you do?

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It is your professional responsibility as a psychologist to conduct your own investigation and not be overly influenced by the not necessarily accurate statements of anyone else. You weren't assigned the case because it is easy, but because a psychologist's objective input is deemed necessary.

You Are a Clinical Psychologist Frequently Asked to Give Expert