Curriculum Vitae

JULIE A. ARMSTRONG Psy.D. RNCS QME

Areas of Forensic expertise for the purposes of Civil litigation includes:

  • Independent Medical Evaluations for allegations of Personal Injury Claims, Psychological Disability, and Emotional Distress claims, including Post Traumatic Stress and Catastrophic injury claims.
  • Psychological Evaluations for allegations of personal injury and emotional distress in Labor and Employment Law related issues, including defense against wrongful termination, and claims of sexual and other harassment, and bullying.
  • Expertise in the forensic evaluation of Children and Adolescents in Personal Injury cases, sexual abuse, trauma and catastrophic injury.

Education

Psy.D. Pepperdine University June 1996.
Dissertation: Childhood Abuse & PTSD in Nurses.

M.N. University of California, Los Angeles, June 1990. Major: Psychiatric Mental Health

B.S.N. Consortium of California State Colleges and Universities, June 1988.

Specialty post-graduate study includes Infant Observation (age birth to 3 years), analysis of dreams, study of the unconscious and psychoanalysis, and forensic assessment and analysis.

Professional Experience

Licensed Psychologist and Clinical Nurse Specialist: Private Practice. 6/96- Present.
Psychological Assessment for Civil and Worker's Compensation litigation

Psychologist: Santa Monica College. 8/99-6/2007.

Psychosocial Resource Nurse: Harbor-UCLA Trauma Center 2/92-6/99.

Registered Nurse: UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital & Institute. 4/83- 8/94.
Staff RN on Adult, Child and Geriatric inpatient psychiatry units.

Teaching Experience (not currently active)

University of Phoenix, Associate Faculty. 6/94-2007.
Undergraduate and Graduate level courses.

California State University, Dominguez Hills, Associate Faculty. 6/90-1999.
Undergraduate and Graduate level courses.

California State University, Northridge, Acting Administrator, Nursing. 6/95-1/96.

Research/Presentations/Appearances

Wicked Attractions the Investigation Discovery (ID) Channel, Regular expert consultant (on camera) for several episodes of this show about unusual murderous behavior. M2 Productions.

An Overview of the Work of Jacques Lacan: A comparison with the work of Bernard Bail, unpublished, 2006.

The Irony of Darwin: Infant Personality Development. Presented at the American Psychological Association, Division 39 Annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2003.

Identification of Suicidal Fantasies in Virtual Reality Simulation Games 9/21-23 1999, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, Va. (Paper published by the FBI in Collected Papers on Suicide and Law Enforcement, 2000.)

The More Dead: Investigating the Murders in the Mexican Maquila International Association of Forensic Sciences, Aug. 1999. (Co-presented with Patrick Callahan, Ph.D.)

El Depredadors: Murder in Mexico Presented at the 5th Annual International Investigative Psychology Conference, London 9/98. (Abstract published in 5th Annual International Investigative Psychology Conference Proceedings).

The GAF Scale. (Invited Speaker) A Day with the Doctors, State Bar of California, Worker's Compensation Section, Marina del Rey, California, July 17, 2010.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Invited Speaker) San Bernardino Bar Association, Worker's Compensation section. San Bernardino, California January 13, 2010.

Technical Advisor to media, work has included CSI and Wicked Attractions.

Open Salon: (http://open.salon.com/blog/dreamdoc)
Thought's from the Psychologist's Couch!

Licensure

Licensed Psychologist, California (Ca Psy 16001)
Registered Nurse, California (RN363062)
Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist California (CNS 004)
Qualified Medical Evaluator, California

Content Expert (past), California Board of Psychology
Expert Witness, California Board of Registered Nurses
Registrant, National Register of Providers in Psychology

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Julie Armstrong Psy.D.
Lic. Psychologist
Forensic and Clinical
RN Clinical Specialist

Ca Psy 16001

4519 Admiralty Way #202
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Telephone: 310.273.9190 Contact Dr. Armstrong


Additional offices located in Irvine and Ontario California. Available to travel for cases nationally and internationally.


Dr. Armstrong was recently interviewed for get MedLegal Magazine. She provides some insight into the use of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale.

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