Evaluations

We use our considerable diagnostic expertise, backed up by structured and standardized assessment tools, to assure you of a clinically sound and medically reliable evaluation every time.

Types of Evaluations:

CIVIL:
EXPERT MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE/STANDARD OF CARE EVALUATION
PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTATIONS
ASSESSMENT OF CLAIMED PSYCHIATRIC HARM
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Mental and Emotional Damages
Mental Disability
Violence
Pain and Suffering
Psychic Injury
Suicide and Self-Harm
Testamentary Capacity
DISABILITY EVALUATIONS
INDEPENDENT MEDICAL EVALUATIONS
LITIGATION CONSULTATION
WORK PLACE RELATED INJURIES
Selection and Assessment of Individuals for positions of trust
Adoption
Child Custody, Divorce, and Visitation
Confidentiality Issues
Ethics and Human Rights
Fitness for Duty
Involuntary Treatment
CRIMINAL:
LITIGATION CONSULTATION
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
WITNESS CREDIBILITY
DOWNWARD DEPARTURE/MITIGATION
Insanity evaluations
Diminished capacity
RISK ASSESSMENT
Juvenile Justice
Competence
Traumatic Brain Injury and Crime
Capital Sentencing and Mitigation
Correctional Psychiatry
Criminal Responsibility
Domestic Violence
Hate Crimes
Homicide and Other Violent Crimes
Sexual Offenses
Stalking and Threating behaviors
Competence to Stand trial evaluations
Substance Abuse evaluations
Psychopharmacology evaluations


Private Corporations
NHFC provide consultation for employee selection and assessment, risk assesment and problem employees. Burnout and workplace performance.

Government Agencies and Law Enforcement
NHFC provides consultation and training regarding THREAT ASSESSMENT, BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT, ELICITATION, DECTECTION OF DECEPTION, STATEMENT VALIDITY ASSESSMENT.

Training
NHFC provides training for clinicians in the areas of forensic testimony, chart and record documentation; consultation to attorneys regarding behavioral health consultations and evaluations. Selection and Assessment, detecting deception, risk assessment.

Comprehensive Psychiatric Consultations and Evaluation—Civil and Criminal Matters

Psychiatric Evaluations
By its very nature, a psychiatric evaluation combines a unique mix of science and artistry. Although the psychiatric diagnostic guidelines manual (DSM-IV) outlines strict criteria for psychiatric diagnosis, the criteria are simply not as clear-cut as identifying a broken arm or a case of the measles. In order to correctly identify a psychiatric condition, or lack thereof, psychiatrists draw on a mix of skill, experience, and training while performing evaluations and making diagnoses and recommendations. Even under the best of circumstances, many aspects of psychiatric evaluation are open to interpretation.