Dr. Robert McIntyre, Ph.D.
Dr. Robert McIntyre maintains an active office and hospital based clinical and forensic psychology practice, regularly accepts direct appointments from various Courts, works as a retained consultant for attorneys and has been qualified as an expert witness numerous times in state, federal, and military courts and administrative law tribunals.
Dr. McIntyre completed his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Colorado's Boulder campus in 1992, completed Post-doctoral Forensic Psychology training from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1999-2000 and completed a Two-year Post-doctoral Certificate of Specialization in Clinical Neuropsychology from The Fielding Graduate University in 2006.
Prior to receiving his Doctorate, Dr. McIntyre practiced for 12 years as a master's level mental health and addiction treatment clinician, having trained in a community mental health center, a county addiction treatment center, a university counseling center and several community corrections agencies.
A former board member of the Colorado Psychological Association and The Boulder Interdisciplinary Committee for Child Custody Matters, Dr. McIntyre has taught graduate students in forensic psychology and undergraduate general psychology students.
Professional Services & Areas of Expertise
Clinical, forensic, and neuropsychological services
Psychotherapeutic Treatment
Standard outpatient psychotherapy emphasizing personality development issues; treating individuals, couples, and families for: relational problems, parenting, depression and anxiety, impulse control, anger management, and substance abuse.
Group and individual psychotherapy of offenders, particularly including substance abuse involved offenders, offenders with severe mental illness, and individuals with anger management problems.
Treatment-oriented Psychological & Neuropsychological Evaluations
- Psycho-diagnostic & neuropsychological evaluations for resolution of diagnostic dilemmas in difficult-to-treat cases
- Recovery of function / treatment progress assessment following neurological insult
- Assessment of neuropsychological status consequent to disorders of neuro-cognitive degeneration
Criminal Forensic Psychological Evaluations
- Pre-trial criminal case consultant
- Evaluation of defendant capacity for knowing and intelligent waiver of rights
- Evaluation of defendant capacity for cooperation with counsel and meaningful participation in defense
- Evaluation of defendant capacity to know right from wrong and/or capacity to form culpable mental states that are essential elements of crime charged
- Evaluation of risk factors for future violence or recidivism, strategies for effectively managing risk factors, and probability of defendant amenability to accepting effective risk factor management
- Evaluation of defendant psycho-social history pertinent to mitigation of blameworthiness, and defendant probability for committing future violence inside secure facilities
- Evaluation of juvenile defendant competence to proceed, level of maturity for potential transfer to adult court
- Rebuttal of behavioral science evidence related to criminal forensic psychology
Parental Capacity Evaluations
- Evaluation of personality characteristics likely to enhance or detract from parenting abilities, such as presence or absence of serious psychological disturbance, adequacy of coping skills, and degree of interpersonal accessibility
- Rebuttal of behavioral science evidence related to parental capacity
Civil Capacity Evaluations
- Evaluation of medical-surgical patient competence to make treatment decisions
- Evaluation of psychiatric patient grave disability, and risks to harm self or others
- Guardianship and Conservator-ship evaluations
- Rebuttal of behavioral science related to civil capacities
Personal Injury Evaluations
- Evaluation of psychological or neuropsychological damages
- Evaluation of liability for psychological or neuropsychological injuries
- Rebuttal of behavioral science evidence related to personal injury litigation
Expert Testimony
For both prosecution/plaintiff/petitioner or defense/respondent
In State, Federal, and Military Courts, Administrative Tribunals, and Civil Depositions, Dr. McIntyre has testified about competence to proceed, criminal responsibility, criminal sentencing factors, capital case mitigation, parental access and responsibility, adoption, child protection, civil commitment, security clearance, and personal injury matters.
Presentations & Papers
Selected academic and professional presentations
Frequently Asked Questions
About neuropsychological testing
Neuropsychological testing formally evaluates a person's brain functioning by testing many different aspects of thinking skills (such as memory, attention, language, and vision), movement, sensation, behavioral, and emotional functioning.
Many neuropsychological tests simply involve the person answering questions out loud for the psychologist who then writes down the answers, although some paper and pencil testing and minimal use of a computer sometimes occurs too.
The length of an appointment for neuropsychological assessment varies greatly depending on the patient and the complexity of the presenting problem.
In straightforward cases, it may be possible to complete the entire evaluation (interview and testing) in four to five hours, which may occur in a single meeting or be spread across more than one meeting.
In complex cases, the interview component alone may take four to five hours. In such cases, patients almost always choose to return on a separate day for testing, where in most cases the second appointment can be scheduled close to the first evaluation date.
Actual neuropsychological testing time also varies but can last anywhere from 2.5 to 5 hours, depending on the complexity of the case, the number of tests that need to be used, and the referral questions. During testing, there are ample opportunities to stretch, use the restroom if needed, or even break for lunch.
This varies, but all efforts will be made for a report to be generated within two weeks of the evaluation date. The report will then be mailed out to the professional requesting the evaluation.
Patients have a right to their medical records and when requested facilitation of patient ability to obtain the report occurs when clinically appropriate. When questions or comments about the content of the report arise, a follow-up feedback session can be scheduled with Dr. McIntyre.
Yes. It is often helpful for the neuropsychologist to interview a family member to learn more about you and your symptoms. If you do not have a close family member, a close friend is also appropriate to bring.
Family members are encouraged to sit in during the clinical interview, but cannot sit in during the actual testing because this can cause distractions and because the tests were not normed with third parties in the room. The official position of the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN) is that 3rd party observers should not sit in on neuropsychological testing. One exception Dr. McIntyre provides for this (consistent with NAN guidelines) is that parents can sit in on the testing if the child has extreme separation anxiety. However, this would be noted in the neuropsychological report and could affect the test results.
You will be interviewed and tested by Dr. McIntyre.
Yes. This is because the neuropsychologists would like to evaluate you when you are functioning at your best possible level.
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