Product Description

All the tips and tools you need to start, grow, and sustain a successful forensic psychology practice

Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice is the first book of its kind aimed at those mental health professionals and recent graduates interested in entering the growing and lucrative field of forensic psychology. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy guide provides you with tools and techniques for starting a thriving forensic psychology practice, or incorporating a forensic specialty into your current practice.

This comprehensive resource includes information on:
* The difference between clinical and forensic practice
* Advantages and disadvantages of forensic practice
* Preparing for forensic psychological practice
* Planning a forensic psychology business
* How to market your practice
* What lawyers look for in forensic psychologists as expert witnesses>
* Ethics, professional competence, and risk management issues
* Performing evaluations
* Testifying in court and depositions


In addition, Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice also features several helpful appendices that include sample evaluations and reports, as well as detailed discussions of child custody evaluation and assessment.

Covering everything from advice on how to dress for court to major concerns such as the problems of insanity defenses, Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice puts the best solutions and information at your fingertips. Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned practitioner, this invaluable resource will help you minimize the uncertainty of establishing your forensic practice while maximizing the rewards.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #891611 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
"Mart provides a great starting point for those interested in beginning their forensic psychology practice. This book is a helpful resource for licensed psychologists as well as graduate students and is a key tool for the preparation needed to begin and maintain a forensic psychology practice."
—April R. Bradley and Troy Ertelt (PsycCRITIQUES, June 27, 2007)

From the Back Cover
All the tips and tools you need to start, grow, and sustain a successful forensic psychology practice

Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice is the first book of its kind aimed at those mental health professionals and recent graduates interested in entering the growing and lucrative field of forensic psychology. User-friendly and full of helpful tips, this handy guide provides you with tools and techniques for starting a thriving forensic psychology practice, or incorporating a forensic specialty into your current practice.

This comprehensive resource includes information on:

• The difference between clinical and forensic practice
• Advantages and disadvantages of forensic practice
• Preparing for forensic psychological practice
• Planning a forensic psychology business
• How to market your practice
• What lawyers look for in forensic psychologists as expert witnesses>
• Ethics, professional competence, and risk management issues
• Performing evaluations
• Testifying in court and depositions

In addition, Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice also features several helpful appendices that include sample evaluations and reports, as well as detailed discussions of child custody evaluation and assessment.

Covering everything from advice on how to dress for court to major concerns such as the problems of insanity defenses, Getting Started in Forensic Psychology Practice puts the best solutions and information at your fingertips. Whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned practitioner, this invaluable resource will help you minimize the uncertainty of establishing your forensic practice while maximizing the rewards.

About the Author
Eric G. Mart, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Manchester, New Hampshire and Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Mart specializes in forensic psychology and his work in this area includes assessments of civil and criminal competencies, risk assessments, custody evaluations, special education cases, and offender treatment. He is also an internationally known expert on Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy and has testified on the subject in court cases throughout the United States and Canada.

Customer Reviews

Well Worth the Investment!
Written by a psychologist who's "been there and done that" at a very high level, Dr. Mart's book offers invaluable instruction and advice to the practicing psychologist who wishes to expand his or her practice into the area of forensic psychology. The book can be referenced time and time again and thereby serve as a "mentor in print" so to speak, in that it provides instruction from the beginning steps of differentiating forensic psychology from clinical psychology, through building a forensic practice and generating referrals, all the way to doing depositions and taking the witness stand in an informed and effective manner. Very highly recommended.

An essential read for those contemplating forensic private practice
This is a book I wish I had when I started private practice. It provides a great orientation to the key issues relevant to establishing a successful practice, and also offers a lot for those already working in the area.

Practical and broad
A very practical book geared toward the business side of running a forensic psychology practice. Dr. Mart gets down to the little details that others overlook - even reminding us to use the bathroom before getting on the witness stand (he quotes the Duke of Wellington's advice to soldiers going into battle: "Make water whenever you can"). I highly recommend it.