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Forensic mental telehealth assessment (FMTA) in the context of COVID-19
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Drogin EY
Int J Law Psychiatry
2020[Jul]; 71
(?): 101595
PMID32768117
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Due to the present COVID-19 pandemic, forensic mental telehealth assessment
(FMTA) is an increasingly utilized means of conducting court-sanctioned
psychiatric and psychological evaluations. FMTA is not a novel development, and
studies have been published during the past two decades that opine on the
positive and negative implications of conducting testing and interview procedures
online, in forensic and traditionally clinical matters alike. The present article
examines prospects for eventual legal challenges to FMTA, describes
considerations for conducting FMTA in both institutional and residential
settings, and concludes that FMTA is now-due to predicted accommodations on the
part of courts, attorneys, institutions, and professional guilds-a permanent part
of the forensic evaluation landscape, even once the present COVID-19 pandemic has
subsided.