Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. Clinical and Forensic Psychology 248 E. Glenn Road Auburn, AL 36830 334/821-3350 FORMAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING B. A. Auburn University, December 1976 Auburn, AL Major: Psychology M. A. University of Arizona, December 1982 Tucson, AZ Major: Clinical Psychology Ph.D. University of Arizona, December 1984 Tucson, AZ Major: Clinical Psychology Minor: Neuropsychology APA-approved program CURRICULUM VITAE Licensed: Certification: California (inactive) Alabama Georgia Certified Forensic Examiner Alabama Competency Evaluation Certification - Georgia POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY University of Southern California, Institute of Psychiatry, Law & Behavioral Science, Los Angeles, CA 1984-1986 Seminars in criminal and civil law and other areas of law/mental health. Supervised evaluation of juvenile and adult offenders on issues of competency to stand trial, insanity, sentencing, risk assessment, and juvenile transfer. Other evaluations involved child custody, parental fitness, disability, and personal injury. Outpatient group psychotherapy with convicted sex offenders. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP - APA approved Patton State Hospital, Patton, CA 1983-1984 Treatment and assessment of criminally committed patients (incompetent, NGRI, and mentally disordered sex offenders). Some evaluation and treatment of civilly committed patients. Participation in team evaluation and recommendations to courts regarding progress and disposition.
Three month rotation to the University of California at Riverside Counseling Center involving intake evaluation, assessment, and short- term psychotherapy with college students. 2 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY EXTERNSHIPS Pima County Court Clinic, Tucson, AZ 1979-1980, 1981-1982 Presentence Psychological evaluation and outpatient psychotherapy for offenders in City and Superior Courts; consultation with probation officers and attorneys. Marana Community Clinic, Psychological Services, Marana, AZ 1980-1981 Psychological assessment and outpatient psychotherapy in multi-ethnic rural community; consultation to various community agencies. CLINICAL AND FORENSIC EXPERIENCE CLINCAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY, Private Practice, Tucson, AZ 1987 to 1996, Auburn, AL 1996 to present Forensic evaluation, consultation, and testimony (criminal and civil) for attorneys, judges, and probation officers; issues of competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, comprehension of Miranda rights; mitigation and presentence evaluation, general clinical psychological assessment (inpatient and outpatient). Member of Court approved list (Pima County, Arizona) to conduct competency and insanity evaluations. Alabama Certified Forensic Examiner. FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST, West Central Georgia Regional Hospital, Forensic Services, Columbus, GA 12/96 to present Court ordered forensic psychological evaluation on competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, restoration to competency, appropriateness for community treatment, and civil commitment. Competency Evaluation Certification. PSYCHOLOGICAL FORENSIC SERVICES, LLC, Tucson, AZ 7/95 to 11/96 Member of psychologist group contracting with Pima County Superior Court to provide presentence and postsentence psychological evaluations for Adult Probation Department. CONSULTANT, Arizona Supreme Court, Juvenile Justice Services Division, 1/96 to 12/96 Contract to provide Psychological Evaluations of juvenile offenders, including sex offenders. CONSULTANT, PsychTeam, 1996 Consultant to psychiatric disability claims management agency regarding nature of psychiatric disability, adequacy of treatment program, return to work issues, consultation with treating doctors.
CONSULTANT, Pima County Court Clinic, Tucson, AZ 1987 to 1995 3 Competency and criminal responsibility screening evaluations, presentence and post-sentence psychological evaluation, evaluation of juvenile sex offenders and transfer to adult court. Supervision of psychometrist and less experienced psychologists. CONSULTANT, Arizona Department of Economic Security, Child Protective Services, District 6, 1987 to 1991 Psychological evaluation and treatment of parents and adolescents in cases of child abuse/neglect; supervision of caseworkers. STAFF PSYCHOLOGIST, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Forensic Services Bureau Conditional Release Program, Los Angeles, CA 1986-1987 Psychological/forensic evaluation of committed mentally ill offenders as to readiness for community treatment (NGRI and Mentally disordered Sex Offenders). Treatment, consultation, and staff training at secure inpatient facility serving mentally ill offenders. CONSULTANT, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Terminal Island, CA 1984-1986 Presentence psychological studies for Federal Court (Ninth District); mental health treatment for federal inmates. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS/TEACHING ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, Auburn University Department of Psychology, June 1997 to 2004. Occasional lectures. ADJUNCT FACULTY, University of Arizona Department of Psychology, Spring 1996 Instructor for Psychological Assessment Practicum. Teaching and supervision of Clinical Psychology graduate students in psychological assessment and report-writing. Occasional forensic psychology lectures, University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry, Tucson, AZ 1987-1990. CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR, University of Southern California Department of Psychiatry, Los Angeles, CA 1984-1986 Supervision of psychiatry residents in forensic evaluation. INVITED PRESENTATIONS/TRAINING WORKSHOPS Boyer, Catherine L. Mental Health Expertise in Mitigation: Evaluations in Search of Guidelines. Paper presentation. Symposium: Mitigation Assessments and Evidence in Capital Trials. American Psychological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 25, 2001. Sexual Deviance. Catherine L. Boyer. Corrections in a New World. Fifty-Second Study Conference, Alabama Council on Crime and Delinquency. Mobile, AL, October 12, 2000.
4 The Role of the Mental Health Expert in Mitigation. Catherine L. Boyer. Death Penalty 99. Sponsored by University of Arkansas Little Rock Criminal Law Association, Arkansas Public Defender Commission, American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project. University of Arkansas Little Rock, June 12, 1999. Mental Health Issues in Death Penalty Postconviction Litigation. Catherine L. Boyer. Alabama Death Penalty Postconviction Training Seminar. Sponsored by the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project, & U.S. Administrative Office of Court Defender Services Division. Orange Beach, AL, May 1-3, 1998 Legal Competency. The Honorable Michael Jones, Superior Court Judge, Jack Potts, M.D., Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D., & David Coons, M.D. Educational videotape production. Sponsored by the Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County. August 1996. The Evaluation Process & Report Writing. Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. & Stephen Pitt, D.O. Faculty of Mental Health Expert Training: Examinations with Regards to Competency. Sponsored by The Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County Criminal Division; training for forensic certification. November 10 & 11, 1995. Evaluating Defendants' Understanding of Wrongfulness. Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. Insanity Law Training for Pima County Superior Courts, Tucson, AZ, December 16, 1993. The Rule 11 Process (Competency Evaluation). Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. Conference on "Defending the Mentally Ill or Incompetent Client", sponsored by the Pima County Public Defenders Office, Tucson, AZ, June 10, 1993. The Juvenile Sex Offender: Issues in Assessment, Treatment and Monitoring. Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. and Christine Johnson, Ph.D. 1990 Arizona Probation Conference, Tucson, AZ, May 21, 1990. Assessment of Juvenile Sex Offenders. Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. Pima County Juvenile Probation Dept. Training session, Tucson, Arizona. April 28, 1989. MPD: An Exotic Defense or Sham. Kaushal K. Sharma, M.D. and Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, February 18, 1989. Competency to Stand Trial. Catherine L. Boyer, Ph.D. Insanity/Incompetence Seminar. Arizona Prosecuting Attorney's Advisory Council, Phoenix, AZ, October 30-31, 1987. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS O Connor, Maureen & Boyer, Catherine L. Insanity Defense Reform in Arizona. Paper presentation. Panel: Into the Lion s Den: Politics, Science and Insanity Defense Reform. American Psychological Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, August 16, 1997. O Connor, Maureen & Boyer, Catherine L. The Role of Mental Health Professionals and Social Science Research in Arizona's Insanity Defense Reform: A Case Study. Paper presentation at American Psychology Law Society, Santa Fe, NM, March 12, 1994.
5 Boyer, C.L. Duty to protect-status in Arizona. The Arizona Psychologist, 1991, 11(1), 8-9. Boyer, C.L. The potentially aggressive patient: When personal safety becomes an issue. The Arizona Psychologist, 1990, 10(4), 14-16. Silva, J.A.; Leong, G.B.; Weinstock, R.; and Boyer, C.L. Capgras Syndrome and dangerousness. Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 1989, 17(1), 5-14. Boyer, C.L. The profession's response to distressed psychologists. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 1984. Boyer, C.L. Assertiveness as a variable affecting the life change-health change relationship. Masters Thesis, University of Arizona, 1982. Hannay, H.J. & Boyer, C.L. Sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry revisited. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978, 47, 315-321. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS Alabama Psychological Association American Psychological Association American Psychology Law Society - Division 41 APA Forensic Certification Committee - Pima County, 1994 National Academy of Neuropsychology Southern Arizona Psychological Association (not active) Legislative committee co-chair 1991-92; 1993-94 Member at Large 1993-94 AWARDS Distinguished Service Award, 1992 - Arizona Psychological Association Valuable Service Award, 1994 - Southern Arizona Psychological Association REFERENCES Available upon request.