Cartwright Ashley
School of Social and Health Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2017 Nov 19;25(2):303-324. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2017.1396864. eCollection 2018.
Around 20 to 50 million people are injured as a result of a road traffic accident (RTA) each year throughout the world. In the United Kingdom there have been considerable efforts made to review the assessment of whiplash claimants following RTAs due to the perceived level of fraud. However, very little has been done with regards to assessments for mental disorder; this article seeks to investigate how such assessments are undertaken. Data originating from one clinical forensic psychologist's practice ( = 305) are examined to provide an insight into the assessment of mental disorder in the medico-legal arena in the United Kingdom, building upon previous research. Many important findings emerged from this analysis including a complicated relationship between the diagnosis of mental disorder and the gender of the claimant. In addition, this article provides detailed normative data using the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised, the Impact of Events Scale, and the Beck Depression Inventory.
全世界每年约有2000万至5000万人因道路交通事故（RTA）而受伤。在英国，由于人们察觉到存在一定程度的欺诈行为，因此已做出相当大的努力来审查道路交通事故后鞭打损伤索赔者的评估情况。然而，在精神障碍评估方面所做的工作却非常少；本文旨在调查此类评估是如何进行的。基于先前的研究，对来自一位临床法医心理学家诊所的305例数据进行了分析，以深入了解英国法医学领域中精神障碍的评估情况。该分析得出了许多重要发现，包括精神障碍诊断与索赔者性别之间的复杂关系。此外，本文还使用症状自评量表90修订版、事件影响量表和贝克抑郁量表提供了详细的常模数据。
