of life, it is particularly important that fo- rensic evaluators involved in the assessment of trauma also assess for dissociative symptoms (Brand. Schielke, & Brams, 2017a: Brand, Schielke, Brains, & DiComo, 2017b; Frankel, 2009). Assessment of complex trauma and dissociation in a forensic context is

been diagnosed with cPTSD have been found to experience trauma-related dissociation with more severity and frequency than other populations (Brand, Schielke, Brains. & DiComo. 2017b: Hyland, Shevlin, Fyvie, Cloitre, & Karatzias. 2019). Dissociation Dissociation is defined in the Diagnostic and Statist