40 Clinical Biases in Forensic Assessment
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Training Description
When conducting forensic assessments, it is critical that professionals take into consideration the potential for clinical judgment biases. In this training, 40 of the most common biases are identified using real-world examples. Evidence-based strategies are then discussed for how to address clinical judgment biases to ensure that our evaluations are objective and transparent.
Trainer Biography
Jay P Singh, PhD is Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Former Senior Clinical Researcher in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology for the Department of Justice of Switzerland and fellow of the Mental Health Law and Policy Department at the University of South Florida, he completed his graduate studies in psychiatry at the University of Oxford. Since this time, he has lectured for Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, and UPenn. He was promoted to Full Professor at Molde University College in Norway in 2014.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Identify the most common clinical judgment biases in forensic assessments.
- Examine our own clinical biases.
- Explore evidence-based methods of de-biasing forensic assessments.
