Advanced Training in Maternal Mental Health Forensics and Courtroom Testimony
4 Hours | 4 CEs
$250 Registration | $200 Early Registration (through 4/10)
Diana Lynn Barnes, PsyD, and Gina Wong, PhD present a live virtual professional training program Advanced Training in Maternal Mental Health Forensics and Courtroom Testimony. This is the fourth program in the Maternal mental Health and Its Application to Forensics: Training the Expert Witness series.
This program provides hands-on techniques and strategies for preparing courtroom testimony through analysis of case transcripts and written reports from instructors’ case files. Didactic and experiential learning is emphasized, as well as the significance of educating the judiciary about the fundamentals of maternal mental illness and its psychiatric underpinnings.
This advanced program is practice and experiential-based, including role-play, small group discussions, and didactic learning focusing on preparing expert witnesses for courtroom testimony in maternal filicide cases. All licensed mental health practitioners, including psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers, and MFTs, are suitable for this training.
Maternal mental Health and Its Application to Forensics: Training the Expert Witness
Series Overview: More psychiatric admissions are around the childbearing years than at any other time in the female life cycle. Women’s reproductive mental health is a highly specialized field of study with an increasingly critical role in the arena of criminal justice. This four-program series introduces participants to the foundations of maternal mental health as it applies to forensics and women who are criminally charged for harm to their child/children. Each program furthers the current empirically based understanding of maternal mental health forensics as well as promotes accepted standards and protocols in this emerging specialty. This series advances fundamental clinical, legal, and sociocultural perspectives in addition to encouraging critical dialogue in this evolving field. Basic diagnosis and assessment, the expert witness's role in evaluation and report writing, and advanced training in expert testimony is included. Case analysis and discussion are integral parts of the didactic learning inherent in this program.