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.