Juvenile Forensic Assessment Certificate
Learn the theoretical, empirical, and practical skills to reliably conduct juvenile forensic assessments. This professional growth opportunity allows for mastery of the specialty skills crucial for work with community mental health agencies, forensic hospitals, correctional facilities, state hospitals, and more. The certificate program spans 150 hours of CE-earning content across 12 programs.
What You Can Expect
This Certificate program includes 13 courses, with 70 hours of foundational training and 80 hours of specialized content.
- You will learn to assess risk for violence, waiver to criminal court, and competence to stand trial.
- With an emphasis on buttressing strengths as well as mitigating risks, you will have the tools to assess juveniles as they navigate the legal system.
Presented By
Eduardo Bunge, PhD
Nicholas C. Jacobson, PhD
Juvenile Forensic Assessment Certificate
Foundational Trainings
Specialized Trainings
You Will Learn To:
1
Answer questions such as: Is this youth at risk to be violent, and under what circumstances? Does this youth meet the standard for competence to stand trial? Does this youth meet criteria for waiver to criminal court?
2
Describe the admissibility standards for expert evidence articulated by the Supreme Court of the United States
3
Describe a 7-step problem-solving process to respond to ethical/legal dilemmas
4
Describe the principles of cultural competence in psychological evaluations
5
Describe background information regarding the human mind and cognitive system
6
Describe the rationale for Forensic Case Formulation
7
Describe the various functions that reports and affidavits which summarize forensic evaluations serve
8
Describe the components/qualities of effective communication generally, and effective testimony specifically
9
Describe the best practices in conducting juvenile adjudicative competence evaluations
10
Describe principles of Violence Triage for prioritizing cases and actions
11
Describe an integrative assessment of adolescents’ risks for harm to others
12
Describe how traits and pathology relate to understanding the young person and writing the psychological report
13
Describe the rationale for, and methods used in, the development of the MMPI-A-RF and much more
14
Learning objective 14
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