Stephanie Scott-SnyderStephanie Scott-Snyder is a forensic clinical evaluator and mental health clinician with over fifteen years of experience. She has provided court-mandated therapy to adult and juvenile offenders, conducted criminal and civil risk assessments, overseen reentry programming, and provided crisis intervention to victims of violent crime; She specializes in issues related to sexual violence as well as violence committed by women. She has consulted on both serial rape and sexual homicide cases and frequently trains law enforcement, mental health practitioners, victim advocates, and court personnel.
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Scott-Snyder is the author of two books: Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Essentials for Law Enforcement and When Women Offend: Crime and the Female Perpetrator, for which she spent months traveling to jails, prisons, and halfway houses across the U.S. to interview women convicted of uncharacteristically violent offenses. Scott-Snyder is also an adjunct faculty member at DeSales University and Caldwell University where she teaches Forensic Psychology and is developing a course on evaluating behavioral evidence in cold cases, respectively. She is also a member of The Vidocq Society and serves as a behavioral science expert for the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute.
Scott-Snyder is a Clinical Member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) and an Associate Member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Eastern Psychological Association. She is also a Clinically Certified Forensic Counselor (CCFC) by the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC) and is a lifetime member of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology. She also previously served on the Board of Directors for the Mental Health Association of Passaic County, NJ.
Prior to her experience in forensic psychology, Scott-Snyder was a Writer/Producer and Creative Director for network television, and worked on projects including Forensic Files, Body of Evidence, The First 48, and Cold Case Files.
Scott-Snyder is a Clinical Member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) and an Associate Member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Eastern Psychological Association. She is also a Clinically Certified Forensic Counselor (CCFC) by the National Association of Forensic Counselors (NAFC) and is a lifetime member of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology. She also previously served on the Board of Directors for the Mental Health Association of Passaic County, NJ.
Prior to her experience in forensic psychology, Scott-Snyder was a Writer/Producer and Creative Director for network television, and worked on projects including Forensic Files, Body of Evidence, The First 48, and Cold Case Files.