Dr. Janice Yu is a licensed forensic and clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience performing forensic and clinical evaluations. She has provided psychological evaluations for the California Supreme Court as an Expert Witness in forensic and clinical psychological evaluation and has evaluated within the California Department of State Hospitals in Napa, Conditional Forensic Release and Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient settings, within the context of immigration civil court proceedings, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the California Board of Parole, and Juvenile Hall.
Dr. Yu began her post-doctorate career as a staff psychologist at the California Healthcare Facility in Stockton, CA where she provided psychological and suicide and violence risk evaluations for incarcerated individuals in the acute and intermediate psychiatric inpatient levels of care. She then began working as a contract evaluator for immigration proceedings and subsequently started her own private practice completing immigration and forensic evaluations. She was then hired as a Senior Forensic Psychologist, Specialist at Napa State Hospital, conducting forensic psychological evaluations and violence risk assessments for involuntary committed patients pertaining to state penal code regulations (NGRI, IST, OMD, WRIT). Thereafter, she became the Community Program Director for the Conditional Outpatient Release Program, where she oversaw the administrative and clinical policy and procedures for conditional releases of forensic commitments. Her current role at San Francisco Kaiser Permanente, Psychiatry Department, entailed developing and managing both child and adult psychological evaluation programs and is the psychiatric consult for the hospitals Threat Management Team. She is currently enlisted as a forensic evaluator for the State of California, Board of Parole Evaluators panel for Offenders with Mental Disorders (OMD).
Dr. Yu earned her Psy.D and Master's in Forensic Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco, CA. License CA #28421
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