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Lavery Psychology is a consulting psychology practice and the Texas regional office of the Institute for Forensic Psychology. We are dedicated to providing psychological evaluation services to police departments, attorneys, human resource departments, government law enforcement agencies, security services and correctional organizations. Lavery Psychology shares consulting and legal resources with the Institute for Forensic Psychology, a group of psychologists and attorneys specializing in police psychology for over 30 years. Based in New Jersey, IFP has affiliated offices in 9 states; and overseas offices in Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad, and Tobago. Our goal is to provide high quality evaluations using best-practice interviewing methods and personality, cognitive, and vocational tests validated on police populations. Our evaluations give clear recommendations that are accurate, fair, timely, and defensible.
New hire evaluations- We provide job relevant cognitive and personality assessments in the pre-hire screening phase of the hiring process for sworn and non-sworn candidates, and in-depth Recruit Evaluations performed after a conditional offer of employment has been made. Recruit candidates will be rated for their emotional and personality suitability to manage the rigors of police work. Individualized results are communicated in a confidential, written report to the hiring department within 7 to 10 days. Verbal results within 48 hours, if needed.
Services for existing employees- We provide in depth Fitness-for-Duty psychological assessments to departments and agencies that have reason to be concerned that a current employee’s job functioning may be impaired by mental health related problems. An impaired employee may bring harm to themselves or the public leading to expensive litigation that can drain resources and compromise a department’s mission. Our evaluations yield: an opinion about an officer’s current emotional fitness to perform their duties; and, if appropriate, specific recommendations for remediation. Outside consulting may be the best answer… As an external consulting organization we can provide a “new set of eyes” to circumstances that may have existed for an extended period of time, or a timely crisis intervention to an acute emotional problem following a traumatic event, without fear that the appearance of conflict of interest will undermine decision making. In the process we give clear and appropriate recommendations for the department and the individual employee. We consider the mental health needs of the officer as well as protections for the organization so a workable solution that is fair, reasonable, and defendable in litigation proceedings can be implemented. In addition to providing initial fitness and recruit evaluations we also provide second and third opinion evaluations, if required, under particular civil service or municipal regulations.
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