Our Services
Experience the depth of expertise McCarthy Forensic Consulting offers, providing unparalleled insights in child and adolescent forensic psychiatry. With a focus on tailored evaluations and expert guidance, Dr. McCarthy delivers solutions that are both impactful and transformative, empowering families, legal teams, and courts to make informed decisions with clarity and confidence.
Clinical Services
1. Competency Evaluations
Assessing a defendant’s competency to stand trial
Evaluating competency to make decisions (e.g., medical treatment, wills).
2. Insanity Defense Evaluations
Determining if a defendant was legally insane at the time of an alleged offense
3. Risk Assessments
Assessing the risk of violence, reoffending, or self-harm.
4. Providing mental health insights for mitigation in sentencing.
5. Guardianship and Conservatorship Evaluations
Assessing capacity to manage personal and financial affairs
6. Civil Commitment
Evaluating the necessity for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
Workplace and Organizational Services
1. Fitness for Duty Evaluations
Assessing employees mental health to determine suitability for work
2. Threat Assessments
Evaluating potential workplace violence risks.
Family and Juvenile Law Evaluations
1. Custody and parental fitness evaluations
2. Assessments for child abuse, neglect, or trauma
3. Evaluations for juvenile offenders regarding competency or mental health needs
Disability and Personal Injury Claims
1. Evaluating mental health impairments related to disability claims
2. Assessing psychological damages in personal injury cases.
