About Forensic Briefs

Welcome to Forensic Briefs, the online podcast that delves into the fascinating intersection of psychology and law. Join us as we explore captivating topics with leading psychologists, lawyers, and academics.

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Michelle Guyton
Host

Dr. Michelle Guyton is a licensed psychologist and certified forensic evaluator in Oregon. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology at Sam Houston State University and her doctorate at the University of Utah. She is one of five board-certified forensic psychologists in the state and the first female to hold this status. In Oregon since 2005, Dr. Guyton worked at the School of Graduate Psychology at Pacific University in Hillsboro, Oregon for ten years. There she functioned as an assistant then tenured associate professor, director of the forensic track, and in other administrative capacities. She and her students presented papers and posters at a variety of regional, national, and international conferences focused on forensic and correctional psychology. She has published in the area of violence risk assessment, inmates’ adjustment to prison, and forensic assessment instruments. Dr. Guyton also worked at the Oregon Department of Corrections where she provided treatment and assessment services to male and female inmates with serious mental illnesses. Dr. Guyton is the director of the Oregon Forensic Evaluator Training Program since its inception in 2012, a state-contracted program that provides initial and recertification trainings for evaluators conducting competency and criminal responsibility evaluations. She is the training director for NWFI’s postdoctoral fellowship and practicum student programs. Dr. Guyton also provides trainings to forensic mental health professionals, lawyers, judges, and other justice-related agencies. She provides consultation to attorneys, government agencies, and other psychologists. In the criminal forensic domain, she conducts evaluations that focus on fitness to proceed, criminal responsibility, sentencing, other competency issues, violence and psychosexual risk assessments. Dr. Guyton also conducts evaluations in the civil domain, including IMEs, personal injury, testamentary capacity, and fitness-for-duty evaluations.

Alexander Millkey
Host

Dr. Millkey is a licensed psychologist and certified forensic evaluator in Oregon. After graduating from Pacific University’s School of Professional Psychology, Dr. Millkey completed his internship at Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wisconsin before completing his postdoctoral residency at the Oregon Department of Corrections. In the Oregon Department of Corrections, he coordinated mental health assessment in the male intake facility at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. After he left the Oregon Department of Corrections he took a position as a consulting forensic psychologist at the Oregon State Hospital, where he conducted risk assessments and helped develop and implement the institution’s risk management architecture. Dr. Millkey continued to conduct evaluations for the courts through the Oregon State Hospital’s Forensic Evaluation Service, in a limited capacity, until January 2023. Dr. Millkey has presented at national and international conferences on a number of topics including assessing fitness to proceed, assessment of malingering, forensic evaluation, assessment of defendants with intellectual disabilities, risk assessment, and forensic assessment of examinees with unusual clinical presentations. Dr. Millkey is faculty for the Oregon Forensic Evaluation Training Program, where he conducts trainings on report writing, assessment of response style, expert testimony, evaluation of mental state at the time of the offense, and the use of videoconferencing technology in conducting forensic evaluations. Dr. Millkey served on the Peer Review Panel for the Oregon Forensic Evaluator Certification Program, where he evaluated and provided feedback on the work samples of certified forensic evaluators. Dr. Millkey has conducted trainings for the Psychiatric Security Review Board on the use of short- to mid-term risk assessment instruments. In the criminal forensic domain Dr. Millkey conducts a variety of evaluations including fitness to proceed, criminal responsibility, mental state at the time of the incident, and violence risk assessment.