NYSAP Workshop: Key Differences Between Juvenile Competency and Adult Competency Evaluations
3 hours | 3 CEs
$225 Registration | Early Registration $200 (through April 20th)
This live workshop on Key Differences Between Juvenile Competency and Adult Competency Evaluations is presented by Ivan Kruh, PhD and Christina R. Riggs Romaine, PhD in partnership with The National Youth Screening & AssessmentPartners (NYSAP).
In recent years, many U.S. jurisdictions have enacted statutory guidance around the conducting of competency evaluations for juvenile court cases. Evaluators with a history of conducting competency evaluations in criminal court cases may be required, recruited, or asked to assist with competency evaluations of juveniles. However, there are critical differences between these two tasks. This workshop will review the types of questions, data, and analyses uniquely necessary when conducting juvenile competency evaluations as opposed to competency evaluations of adults. Grisso’s (1986) Five Question Model for conducting competency evaluations will be used to structure the discussion. Within each question, participants will be introduced to the ways that differences between adolescents and adults, as well as the unique procedures of the juvenile justice context, will impact what must be considered.