Parental involvement assessment

Forensic clinical psychologists may also get involved in civil cases such as personal lawsuits, or workman s compensation where mental health or personal suffering is part of the case. They are often involved in guardianship decisions, to help determine if person has a mental illness that inhibits their ability to make life decisions (i.e., activities of daily living, money management, and legal choices), custody cases where they may evaluate the children and/or the parents, and assessment of abuse or neglect and decisions about placement of these children. 

Observational methods of assessing anxiety in real life or analogue situations are a useful adjunct to the mental status examination in a clinical setting. These methods generally involve the child or others (e.g., trained raters, parents, teachers, clinicians) monitoring anxi-... 

The assessment of degradation in pharmaceutical products involves two aspects of analytical measurement. First, a selective analytical method must be available for accurate assay of the parent drug compound, in order to correctly measure any loss. Second, methodology should be in place for quantification of the degradation products formed. Ideally, when degradation occurs, the measured amount of parent drug lost should correlate well with the measured increase in degradation products. This correlation is referred to as mass balance )- More recently, the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) has provided a definition of mass balance material balance as follows ... 

Another type of experiment has been used to assess the chemical reactivity of pesticides in the air. This principally employs downwind sampling from a treatment site during application (for measuring conversion in the spray drift) and for several days following application (for conversions involving volatilized residues) (24). The principal data are in the form of product(s)/parent ratios with increasing downwind distance, from which estimates of the rate of conversion can be made knowing the air residence time calculated from windspeed measurements. 

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