In this talk Juana Horn, specialised in various types of psycho-legal assessments, shares the lessons she has learned on her journey to becoming a provider of expert opinion. The talk identifies various difficult areas and pitfalls, as well as some of the easier and more rewarding aspects that are likely to be encountered along this road. It is hoped that sharing lessons learned will support practitioners already doing psycho-legal work, or planning to embark on it, to develop the necessary confidence to do this work.
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Juana Horn
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Juana Horn is a developmental psychodynamic clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for about 30 years. She has extensive experience in a range of psychological assessments, and has specialised in many different kinds of psycho-legal assessments over the last thirteen years, including in family matters, such as care and contact, relocation and adoption, in criminal work including rape, torture and theft, in the assessment of criminal capacity in children and adults, in sexual and other forms of abuse of children, and in serious injury assessments. She is keen to share the lessons she has learned on the road to becoming a provider of expert psychological opinion, in the hope that this will assist practitioners to develop the necessary confidence to engage in this challenging and stressful, but also gratifying and fulfilling ‘psychodetective’ work.
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