psychological and forensic assessment instruments
The Interdisciplinary Fitness Interview (IFI) is a semistructured assessment device designed to help examiners explore systematically the domain of psycholegal abilities associated with adjudicative competency. Originally developed by Stephen Golding and Ronald Roesch for a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)–sponsored comparative validity study of methods of assessing competency, the IFI was developed on the basis of three assumptions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Interdisciplinary Fitness Interview (IFI)]
interdisciplinary fitness interview
criminal competencies
forensic assessment in civil and criminal cases
concepts