Dr. Druhn is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Health and Care Professionals in British Columbia (#2401) and has specialized practice in forensic psychological assessment. He attained a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, with a concentration in forensic psychology in 2009. He received clinical and forensic psychological training during residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School/Worcester State Hospital, as well as the Bridgewater Correctional Complex. He subsequently completed intensive specialized training via the one-year Forensic Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Minnesota Security Hospital. All of his forensic work to date, since 2010, has been as an evaluator conducting forensic assessment with populations dealing with Court matters, those in secured psychiatric institutions, and inmates in correctional systems. He has experience with structured professional judgment tools, actuarial risk instruments, psychopathy evaluation, as well as other clinical and forensic assessment tests. He has provided trainings on forensic topics to colleagues, judges, law students, psychiatry fellows, and psychology trainees.
In addition to Dangerous Offender evaluations, Dr. Druhn has held contract employment conducting dozens of risk assessments for inmates. He has further conducted more than 100 evaluations with forensic elements including diagnostic clarification, psychopathy, risk assessment, and malingering at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital of British Columbia. He has testified in front of the British Columbia Review Board on dozens of occasions.
Before immigrating to Canada in 2018, between his work with the Minnesota Judicial Branch and the Minnesota Security Hospital, Dr. Druhn completed 547 forensic reports. The vast majority were to assess fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibility, with others including risk assessment, psychopathy, and malingering. Of those, 17 were highly involved risk assessment evaluations for individuals facing indeterminate civil commitment. He further conducted an additional several hundred evaluations relative to individuals facing civil commitment as Mentally Ill, Chemically Dependent, or Developmentally Disabled. An estimated more than 100 of those cases involved court testimony.
Dr. Nicholas Druhn
Registered Psychologist
Practice in Forensic Psychology