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Event Description Mental Health and Juvenile Justice PLEASE NOTE: The online start of this program will be on October 21st instead of October 15th. Everything else in the schedule and agenda remains the same.
Sponsored by The Center of Excellence for Children, Families and the Law at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology
Robert Kinscherff, Ph.D., JD, instructor
This course is the fourth offered in a four course series. Mental Health and Juvenile Justice is designed for professionals engaged in providing services to youth and families involved in the juvenile justice system who aspire to improve outcomes for youth and families through enhancing their programs and services, and by more effectively partnering with public and private agencies and providers (state, local, tribal or other). Participants will apply emerging research in trauma and neurodevelopment to describing developmental trauma impacts in court-involved youth, identify key points on the research-based "cradle to prison pipeline" for high-risk youth involved with juvenile justice, describe "best practices" for youth involved with juvenile justice, and identify competencies for a program to meet the mental health needs of court-involved youth. General: law and systems overview, consultation and testimony Evaluations of juveniles, including: CST, CR, aid to sentencing Specialty evaluations: violence risk assessment, juvenile fire setting, substance abuse Empirically-based treatments and best practices
Applicants will demonstrate an interest in family forensics and may include mental health professionals, lawyers, judges, probation officers, juvenile justice professionals, child welfare professionals, and court service workers. Prerequisites include an advanced degree in law, mental health, human services or criminal justice and certification or licensure in law, mental health or mediation. A formal transcript and a writing sample will be required for all applicants taking these courses for academic credit. Please contact Robin M. Deutsch, PhD at robin_deutsch@mspp.edu.
Program Code: JJ13-4
28 CE Credits
$975 for CE Credits - Be sure to register early. Space is limited.
Certificate in Child
and Family Forensics - 4 Courses
The certificate in Child and Family Forensics provides
students with a solid foundation in the concepts, theories and practices in
child and family forensic mental health work and will help professionals hone
their skills and increase their knowledge to prepare them for work in child
welfare, juvenile delinquency, sexual offending, divorce child custody and
post-divorce parenting contexts. Courses include: parenting coordination, child
custody evaluation, child maltreatment, and mental health and juvenile justice.
These courses will review the law and systems, describe and practice protocols
for evaluations, and review empirically based best practices and interventions
through in-depth didactic instruction and opportunities for practice and
consultation. Students have the option of substituting one course for an online
course offered by New York Law School.
All courses are offered for 2 academic credits or 28
continuing education credits in a blended learning format, consisting of a
4-week online course and a required "weekend in residence" at the
MSPP campus in Newton, MA.
Robert Kinscherff, Ph.D., JD, is a forensic and
clinical psychologist and an attorney who has been a member of the MSPP faculty
since 1999. He is Senior Associate for the National Center for Mental Health
and Juvenile Justice and a member of the Massachusetts Governor’s Juvenile
Justice Advisory Committee. Dr. Kinscherff has previously served as Director of
Clinical Services for Easter Seals of New Hampshire, Assistant Commissioner for
Forensic Mental Health (Massachusetts Department of Mental Health), Director of
Juvenile Court Clinic Services (Administrative Office of the Juvenile Court, MA
Trial Court), and Director of Adult Forensic Services (Psychiatry and Law
Program, Massachusetts General Hospital). For over a decade, he taught Forensic
Mental Health Law and Psychiatry and Law at Boston University Law School. For
the American Psychological Association, he has served as a past two-term Chair
of the Ethics Committee (EC), Chair of the Committee on Legal Issues (COLI) and
Member of the Committee on Professional Practices and Standards (COPPS). He is
a past member of the Board and the Editorial Board for the Society on Terrorism
Research and has been an invited participant on FBI and RAND Corporation
working groups involving the intersection of behavioral sciences, law
enforcement and national security. His research and professional practice areas
include ethical and professional practice issues in clinical and forensic
mental health practice, violence risk assessment and management, juvenile and
adult sexual offenders, serious delinquency and juvenile homicide, aggressive
and sexually problematic behaviors among youth and adults with developmental
disabilities, and severe and unusual forms of child maltreatment. His
publications include the co-authored book APA
Ethics Code: Commentary and Case Illustrations (Washington, DC:
American Psychological Association Press, 2009) and more recent publications on
topics including mental health practice in juvenile justice contexts, special
ethical considerations in practice, and international human rights law
implications for forensic psychologists of the 2012 US Supreme Court case of Miller v. Alabama
regarding mandatory life imprisonment without possibility of parole for
offenses committed as a juvenile.
Event Type:Continuing Education Program Category:Forensic Psychology & Divorce Early registration ends on Sep 06, 2013.
Regular registration starts on Sep 07, 2013 and ends on Oct 04, 2013.
Late registration starts on Oct 05, 2013.
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