Forensic Risk Assessment: How Are We Doing and Where Are We Going?
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Training Description
Recidivism risk assessments are increasingly required in mental health and correctional settings. This one-hour training will provide an introduction to the structured assessment of general recidivism risk, sex offender risk, and violence risk with a strong emphasis on the underpinnings of current practice recommendations and on reviewing the latest research findings concerning the accuracy of commonly used risk assessment tools.
Trainer Biography
Jay P Singh, Ph.D., 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 what current clinical and ethical guidelines recommend as “best practice” for psychologists conducting forensic risk assessment with patients in mental health and correctional settings
- Identify key strengths and weaknesses of the three broad approaches to forensic risk assessment when used with patients in mental health and correctional settings
- Identify differences in the accuracy of the most commonly used forensic risk assessment tools across different patient groups
- Discuss and critically consider major controversies concerning the application of forensic risk assessment tools to individual patients
