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Dr. Donna E. Weiss is a Florida licensed psychologist
who specializes in forensic psychology. She has worked on hundreds of
criminal and civil cases throughout the United States. She is often
appointed by judges and requested by attorneys to conduct forensic
evaluations. She is a popular expert witness who testifies regularly in the
Florida criminal courts, both at the State and Federal levels. Dr. Weiss has
provided forensic psychological services in numerous high profile cases that
have received national and international media attention. Her areas of
expertise include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Battered Person Syndrome,
domestic violence, childhood sexual and physical abuse, juveniles who have
been transferred to adult court, juvenile and adult murder, assessment of
defendants with chronic and severe mental illnesses, neuropsychological
evaluations, death penalty mitigation, competency to stand trial, competency
to waive Miranda rights, sanity, violence risk assessment, and malingering.
She is currently in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she
serves as a consultant to the Broward and Miami-Dade County Courts,
evaluating pre-trial criminal defendants in the jails. |
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Dr. Donna E. Weiss has worked on
hundreds of criminal and civil forensic cases.
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Dr. Weiss developed a unique specialization
in the area of trauma prior to entering private practice. She has worked
extensively with child and adult abuse survivors in rape crisis centers,
outpatient trauma programs in community mental health centers, in a medical
school clinic, and as the assessment supervisor of a state-funded program
that provided mental health services to abused and neglected foster
children. While completing her doctoral studies, Dr. Weiss obtained
specialized training in forensic psychology as she conducted evaluations in
the Broward County Mental Health Court, the nation’s first court for
mentally ill and/or mentally retarded individuals arrested for misdemeanor
offenses. During her clinical internship year, she performed violence risk
assessments and treatment with post-trial defendants committed to a state
forensic hospital as Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. |
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In addition to her forensic expertise, Dr.
Weiss has substantial experience in the areas of neuropsychology and
behavioral medicine. She has performed hundreds of neuropsychological
evaluations in forensic and clinical contexts with adults and children
suffering from cognitive deficits following head injury, seizure disorders,
dementia, stroke, HIV, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning
Disorders, Mental Retardation, and children prenatally exposed to illicit
substances. Prior to entering private practice, she conducted assessment and
treatment with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients, chronic pain/headache
sufferers, organ transplant candidates, HIV patients, and individuals who
experienced coexisting medical and psychiatric problems. She continues to
use her behavioral health expertise as a consultative examiner for the
Division of Disability Determinations, performing Social Security Disability
evaluations. She also applies her health psychology knowledge to forensic
matters as she works on cases involving the assessment of psychological
disturbances resulting from physical illness in personal injury cases, as well
as the differentiation of true psychological symptoms from those that are
malingered and/or exaggerated.
Dr. Weiss has presented her work on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
in the United States and internationally. She has authored publications in the areas of
childhood sexual abuse, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome.
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