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Read Wiki:  Psychological evaluation is defined as a way of testing people about their behavior, personality, and capabilities to draw conclusions using combinations of techniques.^[1] Over the years, it has developed from unethical methods of locking people up for tests to the many different strategies today. We currently see evaluation being used in several different settings for multiple purposes, such as education or legal situations. The purpose behind modern psychological evaluation is to try and pinpoint what is happening in someone's psychological life that may be inhibiting their ability to behave or feel in more appropriate or constructive way. A psychological evaluation may result in a diagnosis^{[dubious – discuss]} of a mental illness. It is the mental equivalent of physical examination. It is important to use psychological evaluation properly, because if guidelines aren't followed, violations of ethical codes can be made, resulting in harm to a client and invalid assessment results . There is also a risk of evaluation based upon unscientific principles, as found in pop psychology, or pseudopsychology.

When it come to court ordered evaluation, you have apparently behaved or responded in a way that the court did not see as an ordinary response to a question or claim. Some people who have been subjected to extreme stress may find it impossable to clearly recount events confusing the court in their view of events. Emotional involvement in situations and events between two or more persons make a determination difficult if not impossible to clearly resolve in questioning by persons with little or no psychological and or psychiatric training. So this order is to more clearly what events occurred in what order. The fact is that something happened. Understanding the facts does not make a person guilty or innocent and may reveal the depth of the event more clearly.

A friend killed a man who had threatened her with an intention to bodily harm and to kill her. The fact that she had killed her assailant and then was so enraged toward him to stab his dead body over one hundred times suggested her guilt by acting through her intense anger after the fact. But the fact was that her anger grew after the initial event, that could have been viewed as an accident, were it not for her intensified anger in after-thought. The phrase, “Look what you made me do!” comes to mind.