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CORRECTIONS/FORENSIC CLUSTER
Advanced Forensic Case Law &
Assessment and Report Writing
This course presents advanced case analysis
techniques. Students cover the multiple
data sources model of forensic psychological
assessment and apply this knowledge to
clinical/diagnostic formulation, competency
to stand trial, and legal sanity. Emphasis
is placed on writing logical, coherent, and
non-conclusionary reports. Considerable
emphasis is also placed on the theory and
methods of detecting symptom exaggeration
and feigning in the areas of cognition, amnesia,
and psychosis. This course is designed for
the advanced-level student. (PSY 688, 3 cr)
Crime & Personality The purpose of this course is to provide
an analysis of behavior that violates social
norms and establish an understanding of the
relevant clinical implications of working with
various deviant groups. Various views used to
study deviance, including behavioral, psychodynamic,
biological, and social perspectives
of violence, will be examined. Additionally,
there is a focus on deviant identities, including
children who kill, serial murders, mass
murderers, women who kill, sexual deviance,
and family violence. (PSY 682, 3 cr)
Forensic Case Law and Assessment This course addresses issues relevant to
performing psychological evaluations for the
courts. Such issues include the general legal
system, role as psychologists as an expert witness
in both criminal and civil realms, competency
to stand trial, criminal responsibility,
death penalty mitigation, personal injury,
civil commitment, juvenile system, and child
custody. Significant portions of the course
include actual case law readings as related to
the above issues and chapters from the text.
Clinician ethics and responsibility, in regard
to protecting the patient/defendant constitutional
rights, are addressed. The course also
includes case studies to demonstrate the application
of psychological principles to legal
questions. (PSY 687, 3 cr)
Psychology & Law
This course is designed to facilitate exposure
to issues regarding ethics and legalities
for the practicing Clinician. Course topics
include hospitalization issues, ethics, competency,
insanity, dangerousness, punishment,
malpractice, malingering, family/child legalities
and ethics, juries, expert witnesses, abuse,
moral reasoning, disability, victims, perpetrators
and police. (PSY 680, 3 cr)
Mental Health and Corrections
This course is designed to introduce the
basic elements involved with mental health
services in correctional institutions. The
major goal of this course is to familiarize
students with mental health issues/concerns,
give an introduction to the correctional
environment, and prepare students to enter
the correctional environment. The course will
cover correction system management issues,
environmental structure, policy and procedures,
national correctional mental health
standards, and inmate mental health identification
and treatment issues. In addition,
inmate suicide detection and intervention
strategies will be reviewed. Finally, discussion
on legal concerns, ethical issues, and cultural
diversity will also occur. (PSY 689, 3 cr)
Suicide Prevention in Corrections This
course is designed to provide students with the necessary
tools to conduct clinically
sound and legally defensible suicide assessments
in the correctional setting. It will
build upon the initial introduction of basic
principles of suicide assessment presented in
earlier courses. The course relates to specific
instances within the correctional setting in
which suicide detection, assessment, and
intervention is a critical component. Specific
topics addressed include arresting and
transporting inmates, booking and screening,
and mental health assessment and referral.
In addition, predisposing factors and the
correctional environment will be addressed.
Special emphasis will involve discussion regarding
interaction between professionals of
the mental health and correctional fields and
its impact on detection, assessment, intervention,
and prevention. (PSY 550, 1 cr)
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