Constitutional Criminal Mental Health Law: An Overview
4 Hours | 4 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Constitutional Criminal Mental Health Law: An Overview is presented by Christopher Slobogin, JD, LLM.
This program covers the crucial legal doctrines that govern forensic practice, including:
- Constitutional rules and representative statutes concerning the forensic evaluation process
- Competence to proceed
- Competence to make decisions in the criminal process (pleading guilty, waiving counsel, waiving the insanity defense)
- Commitment and treatment of those found incompetent
- The insanity defense and other psychological defenses
- Commitment of people found insane
- Mental disability and the death penalty
- Sexually violent predator laws
- Risk assessment
The program surveys all-important Supreme Court opinions and a sampling of state and federal approaches to the issues. Case Vignettes are reviewed, and their implications for forensic practice.
This program enables beginning practitioners to understand the legal framework governing their work. It provides experienced practitioners with a more nuanced understanding of the legal rules they already know.
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe the most important legal rules governing competence, insanity, death penalty, and criminal commitment
Describe the rationales for those rules
Describe the rules for their daily practice
Describe the rules with an eye toward reform
Presented By
Christopher Slobogin, J.D., LLM
Christopher Slobogin has authored more than 200 articles, books and chapters on topics relating to mental health law, criminal law and procedure, and evidence. Named director of Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program in 2009, Professor Slobogin is one of the five most cited criminal law an...
Curriculum
1. Competence to Proceed
2. Introduction to Vignette Cases 1 and 2 and Discussion
3. Commitment and Treatment of Those Found Incompetent
4. Decisional Competence
5. Introduction to Vignette Cases 3 and 4 and Discussion
6. Case 5: Unabomber Case
7. Competence to Represent Self
8. Insanity Defense
9. Mens Rea Defense (Diminished Capacity)
10. Capital Punishment
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Convenience & Flexibility
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CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.