New Jersey DOH - Evaluation of Competency to Stand Trial: Update on Best Practices and the New Jersey Competency Report Template
6 Hours | 6 CEs
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This training program provides an update on best practices in the evaluation of competency to stand trial, including new developments in the conceptualization of the Dusky standard, as well as practical and theoretical issues in competency evaluation. An overview of competency assessment tools is provided with a focus on the specific abilities to be evaluated, how to formulate a case conceptualization and ultimate opinion regarding a defendant’s adjudicative competence, and how to communicate opinions about competence in the written. Participants are provided the New Jersey competency report template and the latter part of this training focuses on the requirements of this template as a best practice for report writing.
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 relevant case law impacting the interpretation of competency statutes
Describe developments in the conceptualization of the Dusky standard for competence
Describe the research on the evaluation of adjudicative competence
Describe the most recent clinical guidance on competency evaluation and the best practices model
Describe the process for case formulation and arriving at an opinion regarding competence
Describe required, appropriate, and inappropriate report content
Describe the required elements of New Jersey’s competency evaluation report template
Presented By
Patricia A. Zapf, PhD
Dr. Patricia A. Zapf, Ph.D. is Vice President for Continuing & Professional Studies at Palo Alto University (PAU). Prior to coming to PAU, she was a professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), for 16 years, during which time she was instrument...
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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.