Medico Legal Services

J Brook-Tanker continues to work in a specialist forensic service within the NHS, the Dorset Forensic Team; she is the Lead Clinician for Sex Offenders in Dorset. She is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and a member of the Expert Witness Institute; please click on the link below for her entry in the British Psychological Society's Directory of Expert Witnesses and for a link to the Expert Witness Institute.

Joanna Brook-Tanker
www.ewi.org.uk

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Curriculum Vitae
Terms and Conditions

We have more than 18 years experience in acting as an expert witness in Civil, Criminal Mental and Family Proceedings cases. This includes the following:

Violence

Assessment of violence and sex offending, including mitigating factors.
Assessment Of Personality Disorder including Psychopathic Personality Disorder.
Assessment of mental illness and mental disorder.
Assessment of suitability for treatment.
Assessment of prisoners on Indeterminate Public Protection Orders for the Parole Board.
Risk Assessment.

Child Protection

Assessment and treatment of parents involved in non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, emotional abuse or neglect, including assessment of risk and prognosis for treatment.
Assessment of Personality Disorder, mental disorder, Learning Disability, risk of re-offending, mitigating factors and prognosis for treatment.

Psychological Functioning

Psychological assessment of intellectual functioning, level of mental impairment (learning disability).
Assessment of suggestibility in cases of "false confession".
Psychological effects of abuse, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Psychological assessment of mental health problems.
Assessment of mental illness and mental disorder.
Psychometric testing routinely conducted in the majority of cases.
Assessment under the Mental Capacity Act (e.g. capacity to instruct legal proceedings).

Personal Injury

Assessment and treatment of the psychological consequences of trauma including: victims of crime; occupational injury; terrorism; road traffic and other transport accidents.

Sexual Offending

Assessment and treatment of sexual offenders against adults or children in either criminal or care proceedings, including mitigating factors: assessment of risk of re-offending and prognosis for treatment.