Dr Jennifer Blandford

Consultant Chartered Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience in both NHS and Independent Forensic and Mental Health settings of assessing adult mental health problems, using psychometric/neuro-psychological objective assessments and clinical interview.

Areas of expertise: Cognitive and intellectual functioning (e.g. IQ); daily adaptive/social functioning; mental capacity; fitness to plead; executive functioning (i.e. adaptive behaviour, abstract thinking, mental flexibility, problem solving, planning, initiation, personality, especially drive, motivation, inhibition, and social behaviour); malingering; memory; suggestibility and compliance; personality disorders; clinical syndromes; dementing processes; affective conditions (e.g. anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD); fitness to plead; capacity to parent and fitness to work.

With previous legal experience as a senior police officer, I also have extensive clinical experience in preparation and submission of medico-legal reports and attending civil/criminal proceedings to provide expert witness evidence. Full indemnity professional insurance provided.

For further information please download my CV and terms and conditions.

Reg as Expert Witness with Br Psychological Soc

Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society; Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical Psychologist) registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.