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What It Takes To Be A Forensic Psychologist

Forensic psychology is a mental health specialty field that applies studies of the mind and behavior to the legal system. People working in this field may split time between working in a clinical setting and testifying in a court of law. A forensic psychologist may work in the criminal court system performing evaluations of mental competency or in the civil courts focusing on insurance claims, family law cases and other lawsuits.

Professionals in the field of forensic psychology must earn a master’s or doctoral degree in clinical psychology, criminology or another related field. The competition for entry into a doctoral program is highly competitive and those admitted will need to complete five to seven years of graduate study. Individuals who complete training and gain practical experience are eligible to apply to the American Board of Forensic Psychology for board certification.

Research is a big part of what these professionals do. They often interview people locked up in detention centers to determine what made them commit a crime. Some research is done studying case files and consulting with colleagues.

Work within the criminal justice system involves offering professional assessment of the mental state of juvenile and adult offenders. They make determinations about mental competency to determine if an individual is able to stand trial. Some work exclusively with minors called on to testify in criminal trials.

Psychologists take the information gathered by research, analyze it and draw conclusions that they later present as expert testimony in a court of law. As an expert witness in a criminal trial, psychologists are responsible for presenting facts relevant to the crime. During the sentencing phase, they offer expert opinions about how likely the criminal is to commit another crime. The judge uses this information to determine the sentence. After the person is incarcerated, they often testify during parole hearings to help the parole board come to their decision about whether to allow the person to leave custody.

They are sometimes responsible for studying a crime scene and developing a working profile of the perpetrator to help law enforcement narrow down a list of suspects. Criminal profiling is an investigative tool that predicts the likely characteristics of an unknown offender. Psychologists provide information to law enforcement personnel profiling the psychological and social behavior of the offender. They will examine the belongings of a suspect and offer a psychological assessment. They often consult with law enforcement officers to offer advice about the best methods for interviewing a suspect.

Work in the civil court system often involves a range of responsibilities from dealing with child custody cases to providing expert testimony in insurance claim lawsuits. Within the family court system, professionals perform custody evaluations and asses visitation risk factors. They will compile this information for the judge to use in determining the outcome of a custody case.

Some professionals focus on cases where their expertise is needed to determine mental capacity. These services include examinations to determine if a defendant can legally invoke an insanity defense at trial. They may be responsible for assessing a defendant’s mental state and rendering an opinion about his or her mental capacity to stand trial.

Salaries in this field are dependent on a variety of factors. Specialty, place of employment, geographical location and experience determine pay rates. Many of these professionals are self-employed and do contract work for local law enforcement, law firms or other agencies. Some professionals find employment in prisons, court systems and educational facilities.

Prisons employ trained psychologists to serve in a variety of capacities. Some individuals analyze inmates eligible for parole and work closely with parole officers to manage parolees. They sometimes provide counseling for people to help them cope with the terms of their probation.

Court systems employ psychologists to evaluate witnesses or defendants for their suitability to testify during trial. Other duties may include evaluating jurors. In the family court system they may conduct interviews and make determinations used to decide cases that terminate parental rights.

Becoming a forensic psychologist is not for everyone. Candidates need a great deal of education and must be able to excel in an academic setting. They must be comfortable with other people constantly scrutinizing and questioning their work. Those who testify in court must be able to perform under pressure in an adversarial environment. Individuals seeking this type of work must be interested in people and unraveling the mysteries of what makes them do what they do and behave a certain way. Qualified professionals will have a challenging and rewarding career that combines two major disciplines.

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What Can We Learn From Khalid Bin Walid in the 21st Century

“We shall take this route; let not your resolve be weakened. Know that the help of Allah comes according to your desire.”

After the death of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, Abu Bakr (R) sent two Muslim armies to the hostile Persian and Byzantine states. At the time Khalid bin Walid (R) had decimated the frontier Persian armies and conquered a sizable portion of their territory. Whilst, the Persians were reeling, the Muslim Army who had entered the Roman, Byzantine Empire, were now on the back foot after making initial gains.

The Caliph, Abu Bakr (R) immediately sent for Khalid bin Walid to make his way from Persian(present day Iraq) to Byzantine(the Levant) territory as fast as possible and take over command. But the only route he found suitable and quick enough had its path through barren desert miles without water. A route that was perilous for an individual and certain death for an entire army. To make matters worse only one man knew the route and he had only ventured it once. As a child.

It was here that Khalid made that famous statement, polarising his troops, not specifically towards war and victory in that sense, but to an unrelenting, powerful faith in God. Possibly after hearing discontentment from his soldiers in his choice of route, he stated,

“We shall take this route; let not your resolve be weakened. Know that the help of Allah comes according to your desire. Let not the Muslims fear anything so long as they have the help of Allah.”

And this undying faith was so evident throughout his life. Whether it was his taking command of the Muslim Army being heavily outnumbered against the Romans in the battle of Mu’tah where he saved the Muslims from annihilation just months after his conversion to Islam or his drinking of poison at the bequest of the enemy that if he did so they would surrender the keys to the city and he did saying it could not harm him if he recited the Name of Allah upon it or his flinging of himself into the midst of the enemy searching for martyrdom from the sword of the most fiercest of enemies – Khalid ibn Walid is a testimony of faith, a statue of belief and reliance on God, a legacy that has lived on as much as his conquests of the superpowers of that time. But a legacy not celebrated and heeded but overlooked in light of his more ‘spectacular’ achievements.

But it was this remarkable faith in God, which was the reason of his success. As Muslims we cannot claim that wars are won only on the basis of numbers, tactics, stratagems and weapons. We cannot claim that Allah has no part to play in the outcome of wars and battles – that, God forbid, is nothing but blasphemy and denial in the Attributes of Allah. Of course, the whole battle, the whole war, every outcome is in the control and decree of Allah. Our success or our failure, in whatever aspect of our lives depends on Allah.

Or from what we learn from Khalid (R) – from the amount of faith we have in Allah. It was Khalid’s faith in his Lord, his certain knowledge that Allah will provide him victory against the enemy if he just checked and double-checked and triple checked his plans, that he would find the enemy’s weak points whether in their infantry or their cavalry if he just observed them long enough and faith cooked and flowered and became rooted in his heart to such a degree that when things got serious, yes, he was certain that even if he drank a cup of poison, that if he recited Allah’s name on it, it would not harm him.

This was the sword of Allah, Khalid bin Walid. His trust in Allah, his striving with all his effort with the tools in his hand, his goals and aims lofty, his ambitions unquenchable,  his faith in God unshakeable, his courage ever defiant yet humble and merciful to the believers.

Lessons we can take to every part of our lives, whether our studies, our jobs, our families, the protection of the oppressed, standing up for justice, the invitation of others to Islam and most importantly, in the belief and seeking closeness to Allah – the very purpose of our existence.

Trust in Allah, everything else is history

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On Proving the Existence of God

Observing the World around us leads us to certain truths about the World in which we live. All the science mankind has produced is a direct result of observing, experimenting and refining what we see and observe in the natural world. But can an observance of natural laws and systems also prove the existence of a Creator, that is, prove the existence of God?

Take a simple apple for example. What does one need to grow an apple?

The apple needs almost an infinite amount of resources in its service and almost an infinite amount of other processes working alongside it so that it may be fully and completely produced.   The problem is they all need to be working together and all the uncountable processes and systems must already be in place before the apple comes to existence.

Let’s look a bit closer to the growth of an apple and the different processes involved.  An apple to grow obviously needs the assistance of the tree.  So all the apples on a particular tree must communicate to the tree that they need branches and a trunk solid enough to support all the apples at least till the apple is ripe.

The tree however needs nutrients in the soil for growth and support. So it must inform the soil to contain all the nutrients needed for it to grow. The nutrients themselves needed to place themselves in the soil for the convenience of the tree.  The nutrients themselves had to be composed correctly for the benefit of the tree and at the same time pose no danger to the tree and no destructive danger to other nutrients/insects in the soil.

But the tree also needs water to grow. The tree needed to know the correct composition and nature of water, so that it would have developed the processes to properly absorb it from its roots all the way up its trunk and to all parts of the tree.  However, the tree having access to water means it needs to be able to summon the clouds. The clouds, tasked with delivering water to the trees need to summon the winds and at the same time have some sort of rapport with oceans, rivers and lakes.

But for adequate oceans and rivers to form there also needs to be some sort of communication with the Earth, landmarks, contours, elevations – not to mention the right amount of water available. The more we dwell into it, the more it seems the entire Earth is needed to grow a simple apple – each part communicating, deliberating and seemingly working in harmony with the other.  But we still haven’t even mentioned the role of the Sun, something outside our humble Earth.

For the Sun also is part of the picture. It commands the water to rise up to form clouds, who summon the winds, so they may fall upon our apple tree. But the Sun it seems is playing a double game. It had at some point in time, made contact with every tree and they had worked together to construct a system for the leaves to create energy via the leaves through the sun’s light through the process of photosynthesis. Not to mention the tree also removing carbon dioxide with the atmosphere, an excess of which is destructive to life on Earth.

The amount of complex interplay, communication and mutual harmony functioning in our World is remarkable and it can easily be seen that the combined forces of the entire Universe are needed to grow a simple apple (I forgot to mention the apple needs be digestible by the human body and so adding a further layer of complexity and apparent communication). This leads to two possible conclusions. Either every element in the World is some sort of All-Knowing being able to account for and work together with every other element (which is also All-Knowing) or we are looking at a Single, Supreme All-Knowing Being, commanding everything else.

The former conclusion is problematic as to have multiple powers capable of creating will undoubtedly lead to confusion and mismanagement. We don’t observe such chaos in the natural World perhaps only in the systems of Man do we encounter such confusion. Even with two independent creators you set yourself up for a myriad of dissension, confusion and chaos. With more creators the problem is compounded.

But the World works and cooperates in complete harmony, leading to the conclusion of a single entity, a single God-head.