Law and Mental Health - Law and Mental Health: Biased Clinical Judgment in Forensic Evaluations:

Law and Mental Health: Biased Clinical Judgment in Forensic Evaluations: Can Anything Really Be Done About It? -Anthony Perillo, Ph.D. Dr. Anthony Perillo is a licensed psychologist and Training Director of the Forensic Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship in the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center at John Jay College in 2014. He has conducted forensic evaluations at the private practice, local, county, and federal levels and for the past six years has supervised clinical trainees in clinical, forensic, and police evaluations. Dr. Perillo has received several honors from the American Psychology-Law Society, including a First Place Dissertation Award for his research on risk assessment of sexually abusive clergy and the 2021 Early Career Teaching and Mentoring Award for his work with forensic trainees. Dr. Perillo’s ongoing research focuses on factors that influence clinical judgment in forensic evaluations. As co-PI on project funded by the National Science Foundation, he recently completed a project with Dr. Jen Perillo examining cognitive and legal factors that lead to biased forensic evaluations. Dr. Perillo also supports practices to make forensic research more transparent, accessible, and trustworthy, and his paper on open science practice with Melanie Fessinger, Brad McAuliff, and Jen Perillo will be in the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe cognitive and legal factors that can bias clinicians’ judgment during forensic evaluations and analyze how these factors can impact each other. 2. Specify five strategies proposed to reduce clinicians’ bias during forensic evaluations. 3. Analyze proposed solutions to forensic clinician bias, specifically implementation challenges and their prospects of reducing bias. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.