Juvenile and Adult Forensic Evaluation

Expert Forensic Services for Juveniles and Adults

As a forensic psychologist Dr. Cleveland is an expert in juvenile and adult forensic evaluation

Dr. Jane Cleveland is a licensed psychologist in private practice, specializing in forensic psychology. She has unparalleled training and experience in domestic, civil and criminal cases; trained by The University of Massachsetts Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, she was a fellow of Dr. Thomas Grisso and others with internationally recognized forensic competence in mental health. As such she is an expert in the evaluation of juveniles and children, which in addition to her expertise in adult forensic assessment, makes her skills vast and adaptable.

Dr. Cleveland has performed forensic evaluations at the federal and state level, in Colorado, New Mexico and Massachusetts. Attorneys in the Denver Metro Area have touted her as having training, ethics, and professionalism that are second to none in Colorado.

Forensic Services

Dr. Cleveland is available for a full range of Forensic psychological services for individuals, agencies, corporations, courts and academic institutions.

Criminal

• Competence to Stand Trial
• Sanity/ Criminal Responsibility
• Parental Responsibility Evaluations
• Supplemental Parental Responsibility Evaluations
• Mental State at the Time of the Offense (mitigation issues, current functioning)Aid in Sentencing

Juvenile

• Juvenile Delinquency
• Violence Risk Assessment
• Competency to Stand Trial
• Sanity/Criminal Responsibility
• Aid in Sentencing
• Transfer to adult court

Civil

• Personal Injury- Psychological Trauma/ Mental Injury/ Emotional Damages
• Malpractice

Litigation Consultation

• Document Review
• Expert Testimony
• Review Of Relevant Research
• Client Support

Domestic

• Parental Responsibility Evaluations
• Supplemental Responsibility Evaluations
• Parenting Evaluations

Qualifications/Experience

Dr. Cleveland has worked in a forensic capacity for courts, defense counsel and the prosecution. She has been qualified as an expert in many counties in Colorado-Jefferson, Douglas, Denver, Arapahoe Pitkin, Elbert and Broomfield, etc.

Training And Experience

• Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and a specialty in Forensic Psychology:
  Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, currently William James College, Boston, MA.
• Post-Doctoral Forensic Fellowship:
  University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Psychiatry- Law and Psychiatry Program
• Internships:
  Federal Medical Center and Boston Juvenile Court Clinic in conjunction with the Massachusetts General Hospital, Child Psychiatry and the Law Program
• Professional employment: Youth Diagnostic and Development Center (YDDC), Children, Youth and Families Department – Juvenile Justice Services, Albuquerque, NM; Contract Service Provider for the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (CMHIP); and private evaluations as requested by state and federal attorneys.

Learn more at Forensic Psychologist - Psychological Associates of the Rockies