Law, Forensics & Pastoral Counseling
Q's Ministry, BHITS

                  Consultation References for the Ministry's Parish / Clients
Special References

--Providing memorandum, recalling an event one witnesses before being exposed to misinformation about the event can reduce suggestibility in the witness.
However, tampering with witness by giving immediate information for recall can make the effect of misinformation worse in the long run in the young and the
old. Immediacy of recall of actual details can facilitate the learning of new misinformation causing proactive interference. Thus tampering with witnesses at
the onset of an event can make misinformation more salient; see Chan, J.C.K., Thomas, A.K., and Bulevich, J. B. (2008). Recalling a Witnessed Event
Increases Eyewitness Suggestibility: The Reversed Testing Effect. Psych Science, 20(1), 66-73.
--Frequency and severity of peer harassment is related to being female, perceiving that school atmosphere tolerates harassment of females, and harassment
committed by school employees themselves; see Ormerod, A. J., Collinsworth, L. L. and Perry, L. A. (2009).Critial Climate: Relations Among Sexual
Harassment, Climate, and outcomes for High School Girls and Boys.Psych of Woman Quarterly, 32(2), 113-125.
--The powerful rule governed moral thinking focus on the rightfulness or wrongfulness of an act (but not when the powerful person's self interest is involved) and
the powerless focus on the outcome-the positive or negative consequences of the act. Lammers, J. and Stapel, D. A. (2009). How power influences moral
thinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psych, 97(2), 279-289.
--  The right handed associate right spacial field with positive ideas and left spacial field with negative ideas. The left handed associate left spacial field with
positive ideas and the right with negative ideas; Casasanto, D. (2009). Embodiment of abstract concepts: Good and bad in right- and left-handers. Journal of
Experimental Psych, 138(3), 351-367.
Contract - Independent Pastoral Personal Counseling Assessments that may be used for Forensic Purposes
Forensic offenders who are institutionalized in treatment places
Correctional offenders institutionalized in jails or prisons
Mental Health Pastoral Counseling for Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Paranoid Personality Disorder, other..
Restoring to Competency & Conditional Release
Personal Counseling Assessments that may be usable for forensic
purposes important to Civil or Criminal Courts

Friendly Witness Testimony in Courts & Pastoral Counseling
Services

Child Custody and Parental Fitness
Competency to Stand Trial or Conditional Release
Criminal Responsibility or Insanity
Risk Assessment or Conditional Release
Personal Injury Claims
Family Violence
Juvenile Transfer and Openness to Treatment - Amenability
Malingering

 Psychopathology & Risk Assessment
  1. Domestic Violence
  2. Caregiver Emotional Stability
  3. Depression Assessment
  4. Anxiety Assessment
  5. OCD
  6. Negative & Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
  7. Emotional Stability  
  8. "Detection of Lie" - Making Impressions    
  9. Public safety personnel, protective services personnel, or Law
    Officer Emotional Stability
  10. Violence risk assessment, competency, insanity
  11. Risk taking, Stress Tolerance, Safety Assessment
  12. Job Screening

Screenings for High Risk Individuals
  1. Frustration
  2. Difficulty controlling Anger
  3. Risk Taking / Recklessness
  4. Reckless Driving / Safety
  5. Antisocial Behavior
  6. Domestic Issues
  7. Integrity
  8. Low ability to Control Temper
  9. Low Social Sensitivity
  10. Work Difficulty

  • Low Insight
  • Low Candor
  • Leadership Avoidance
  • Lack of Sensitivity
  • Introverted Personality
  • Low on competitiveness
  • Distrust of Others
  • Low in being Service Oriented
  • Difficulty in Work Adjustment
  • Low Reliability and Conscientiousness in Employees
  • Low Work Ethic
  • Low Social Initiative

Research
Jury decision making
Eyewitness testimony
Impact of expert testimony

Individual Differences Among Jury & Decision Making
Demographics
  1. Gender
  2. Age
  3. Income
  4. Education
  5. Religion
  6. Race
Personality Factors
  1. Self-control
  2. Liking groups
  3. Belief in the just world
  4. Locus of control
  5. Socialization
  6. Agreeableness
  7. Authoritarianism
Attitudes abouts bias cases
  1. Rape, Sexual assaults
  2. Death penalty
  3. Gender identity, Homosexuality
Emotional Intelligence Assessment
* Personal Pastoral Counseling Assessments on the Net.