Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the University of New South Wales, Sydney and Arizona State University! We are writing you today in the hopes that you will join us in learning more about our profession. We would appreciate your time and attention, and offer in return free resources (e.g., a template for evaluating the quality of your work based on eight best practices for forensic psychological assessment, a dozen recent articles relevant to forensic assessment practice, and a summary of the results of this project when it is complete).

This project, supported by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, is being performed to better understand how psychologists approach assessments in forensic contexts in Australia and New Zealand. You are invited to participate because you are a psychologist who does or has done forensic evaluations in Australia and/or New Zealand.

If you decide to take part in the online survey, we will ask you to answer a few questions about your two most recent forensic psychological assessments. We will ask what the referral questions were in these two cases, what sources of information you used, how long the evaluation took, the length of each report, and whether you used any instruments in the assessments. We’ll ask for your opinion about the strengths and weaknesses of these instruments in practice. The survey will take approximately 20 minutes.
At the end, we will give you an option to share a redacted report with the research team if you wish (or two, if you choose). Although we cannot provide you with personalised feedback on your submitted reports (because the survey is anonymous), we will give you a copy of an assessment rubric containing 117 questions that you can use to self-evaluate your own reports against eight best practices for forensic psychological assessment described in the literature.

Link to Participate:
https://asu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ea0vRUw3lJfzegm

If you are willing to help by responding to the questions on this survey, we are happy to share the results. If you need clarification, have questions, or would like a summary of the results, please contact Dr. Martire or Neal at the email addresses listed below. Thank you for your time and your attention to this request.  We hope you join us in this project.
 
If you have colleagues in the field who might be interested and willing to participate, please forward this invitation to them. Thank you for your help.

Warm regards,
 
Kristy A. Martire, Ph.D.              
Associate Professor of Psychology    
University of New South Wales      
[email protected]         

& 

Tess M.S. Neal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Arizona State University
[email protected]