Alexandra Clarfield PhD
Consulting, Psychological Assessment, Expert Witness Testimony 1223 High StreetC-1
Auburn, CA 95003 Phone: (707) 331-5389 Fax: (707) 634-1402 Email: aeclarfieldphd@gmail.com Website: www.alexandraclarfield.com
Specialties
Cases involving personal injury, employment issues and psychologist malpractice, as well as cases related to alternative treatment modalities. Assessment issues, among others: PTSD, psychological damages, disability/impairment, malingering, and harassment and discrimination.
Degrees/Licenses
PhD, Clinical Psychology
MS, Social Psychology
BS, Psychology
Edward J. Hyman, PhD
R. Nevitt Sanford Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Emeritus, Center for Social ResearchDirector, California Institute of Forensic Sciences
39 Seacape DriveSausalito, CA 94965 Phone: (415) 388-4479 Alternate: (415) 971-9725 Email: psychologyexpert@hotmail.com
Specialties
Criminal-serious felonies; capital/special circumstances. Violence and Sexual Violence Risk Assessment. Competency, Sanity, Non-Sanity Defenses of Mitigation and Exculpation. Sentencing in state and federal matters Employment Law incl: Discrimination (age, sex, ethnicity, and ADA), Wrongful Termination; Sexual Harassment/Assault; Trauma; Psychiatric/Psychological Malpractice; Police Misconduct; Psychodiagnostic Assessment; review other expert's work. Custody Evaluation reviews.
Degrees/Licenses
PhD; C. Phil.; AB; Lic. Psychologist, CA. Board of Medical Quality Assurance, State of Hawaii Psychology Board; Board Cert., Forensic Clinical Psychology; Fellow, California Institute of Forensic Sciences.
Formal Education
Senior Fellow, Center for Social Research; PhD, UC Berkeley; C. Phil., UC Berkeley; Graduate Studies, Dept. of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University; AB, Psychology & Middle East Languages & Cultures, Columbia College, Columbia University.
Registration and Licenses
Lic. Psychologist, Board of Medical Quality Assurance, State of Ca., Hawaii Psychology Board; Lic. Marriage Family Therapist, Board of Behavioral Sciences Examiners, State of Ca.; Cert.: Special Master, Divorce and Mediation Law, No. Ca. Mediation Center, Joan Kelly, Ph.D.; Cert.; ADA evaluation/consultation Psychopathy, Hare PCL-R-2 and other Psychopathy measures, child custody evaluations, sexual abuse and violence risk assessments, forensic hypnosis, criminal responsibility, assessment of psychopathy, Amer. Academy of Forensic Psychology; Cert.: Rorschach Performance Assessment System R-PAS, Advanced Cert.: Adults, Children & Adolescents, Forensic Rorschach, Rorschach Performance Assessment System R-PAS, Rorschach Research Foundation; MMPI/MMPI-2, Forensic Psychological Assessment, Neuropsychology, Ca. Psychological Assoc., Forensic MMPI-2, Caldwell Reports, Alex Caldwell, Ph.D., Amer. Academy of Forensic Psychology; Assessment of Temporary and Permanent Impairment and Disability, CSIMS.
Previous/Current Position
Director, California Institute of Forensic Sciences; R. Nevitt Sanford Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Law Emeritus, Center for Social Research, Berkeley; Director, National Institute of Forensic and Behavioral Sciences; Assist. Dean, Joint Medical Education Program, UC Berkeley/UCSF; Director, Doctoral Program and Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco, SF; Visiting Professor, Dominican University; Lecturer, UC Berkeley; On-Air Consultant: NBC, ABC, CBS & CNN Network News, Frontline. Correspondent, Huntley-Brinkley Report, NBC Network News.
Honors/Awards
Fellow, California Institute of Forensic Sciences; Fellow, Am. Assoc. for Advancement of Science; Diplomate, Forensic Clinical Psychology; Outstanding Faculty Researcher, USF; Presidential Fellow, Univ. of CA.; Trustee, Am. Child Abuse Prevention Soc.; Consultant, US DOJ; State of California DOJ; Dir., Inst. of Forensic Sciences, UC-Berkeley; Who's Who In The Frontier of Science and Technology, Who's Who in America; Recruiting Committee, Columbia University, Columbia College, Chair; Alumni Admissions Committee, Columbia College; Board, No. Ca. Alumni Assoc., Columbia University; Columbia College Deans Award, 2009.
Prof. Affiliations
Amer. Psych. Assoc.; Am. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science; Am. Child Abuse Prevention Society, Trustee; Am. Orthopsychiatric Assoc.; Am. Assoc. of University Professors; Am. College of Forensic Psychology; Am. Board of Forensic Medicine, Diplomate and Fellow; Am. Board of Psychological Specialties, Diplomate and Fellow, Member, Examination Committee; Am. Psychology Law Society, Founding Member; International Society of Political Psychology, Member; Int'l Soc. for Applied Psychology; International Society of Political Psychology. Society for Psychological Assessment.
Publications
numerous incl: LIFE STRESS S.B. Day, Ed., VanNostrand Reinhold Medical Series, Child Abuse and Stress: Sociosituational Interpretation; "Are Competency Exams Competent?", Annals of American College of Forensic Psychology, 1996; "Ethical and Legal Challenges to Psychodiagnostic Evidence," Society for Personality Assessment Forensic Issues, 2003; "Parental - Child Alienation Syndrome: Reformulation for the New Millennium," Annals of American College of Forensic Psychology, 2003; Theodore Kaczynski: A Case Study, Society of Personality Assessment, 2012, MMPI-2 v MMPT-2RF in Forensics Applications, Society of Personality Assesment 2014.
Prior Expert
PLAINTIFFS:DISCRIMINATION; Lagrone v IBC Wonderbread (race/sex), Bravo v Pillsbury (sex); Mukihtiar v CSU (race/ethnicity); Rasczewski v DOD (age), Rose-Lee v UC (race/sex); Getten v Sanwa Bank (religious); Mullen v G.E. Westinghouse (sexual/assault); DEFENSE: Carillo v. Lake County College [child sexual abuse]; Gruwell v CircuitSales (sex/harass.); Police Misconduct: PLANTIFFS: Alire v SanPedro; Rotger v Oakland; DEFENSE: Chavez v. Hayward; Barry v F.B.I., Gregsby v Berkeley; Miago v BART (PI), Angle v Kaiser (med. Mal.); CRIMINAL US v Kaczynski: People v Brenden T. (6 yr old attmpt. murder), DEFENSE: People v Andy W. (15 yr. old killed schoolmates/teachers); People v Hudson (molest); People v Torrente (Homicide with 2 Spec. Circ.); People v Livingston (3 Spec. Circ.) People v Bush (Appellate); People v Jeffery T. (17 yr. old attmpt. murder); PROSECUTION: People v Luis M. (11 yr. old killed 16 yr. old); People v Helzer (serial capital murder), People v. Ary (Appellate case). Offices in Berkeley, Capitola, Carmel, Fairfield, Sausalito, Encino, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Newport Beach, New York and Minneapolis.