Section 17 Psychologists and Social Workers

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Changes in a person’s personality, the depression the person suffers, and the fears and anxieties with which the person lives are proper subjects for the testimony of a psychologist. There are standardized tests given to traumatized individuals to confirm these facts. In Johnson v. Creative Restaurant Management, 904 S.W.2d 455, 458 (Mo. App. W.D. 1995), the court approved the admissibility of the records of a psychologist, including the psychologist’s testing and conclusion that “the test items were responded to evasively and defensively.” Missouri law on the issue of the admissibility of the opinions and conclusions of psychologists has been scant in the past, but numerous other jurisdictions have held that this testimony is admissible. See:

Jenkins v. United States, 307 F.2d 637...