CONCEPT Professional Training Announces Online Training plus Professional Consultation Programs

HILLSBOROUGH, Fla. - Feb. 18, 2015 - PRLog -- (Lithia, FL – February 17, 2015) – CONCEPT Professional Training will be offering two Spring Training sessions, each consisting of guided online training plus weekly professional consultation, beginning March 1^st, 2015. CONCEPT provides professional training services for mental health professionals available in a convenient online format.

Two Spring Training sessions will be offered from March 1^st to May 9^th: Evaluation of Risk for Violence using the HCR-20 Version 3 and Best Practices in the Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial (https://ao208.infusionsoft.com/app/page/default-campaign-landing-page). Each session runs for 10 weeks and is 30 hours in length (2 hrs of online training and 1 hr of consultation each week).

Evaluation of Risk for Violence using the HCR-20 Version 3 is presented by Dr. Kevin Douglas and Dr. Stephen Hart. The program is intended primarily for criminal justice, metal health, and victim support professionals.  The HCR-20 Version 3 is the most commonly used violence risk assessment measure across 44 different countries. Program participants are guided through the foundation for structured professional judgment, how to rate the presence and relevance of each of the HCR-20 Version 3 items, how to formulate risk scenarios, how to consider case management issues for the evaluee, and how to conceptualize and provide summary judgments regarding the evaluee’s overall risk. Participants will also have the opportunity to apply these concepts to a case study as well as receive weekly consultation regarding current clinical cases or implementation issues.

Best Practices in the Evaluation of Competence to Stand Trial is presented by Dr. Patricia Zapf. This program is intended for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals who conduct competency evaluations for the criminal courts or those who would like to expand their practice to offer evaluations of adjudicative competence. This training program covers the legal foundations for adjudicative competence, including new developments in the conceptualization of the Dusky standard, as well as practical and theoretical issues in competency evaluation. Competency assessment instruments are reviewed in depth as are report writing and expert testimony. The trainee is taken through the foundations for competency evaluation, the specific abilities to be evaluated, how to formulate a case conceptualization and ultimate opinion regarding a defendant’s adjudicative competence, how to communicate opinions about competence in the written report and through expert testimony. In addition, participants will engage in weekly small group consultation with the instructor to discuss current clinical cases and other clinical implementation issues.

For more information on Spring Training sessions, visit  https://www.concept-ce.com/spring-training-2015. (http://www.concept-ce.com/spring-training-2015)

About CONCEPT

Consolidated Continuing Education & Professional Training (CONCEPT) provides expert online professional training in areas relevant to criminal and civil forensic mental health assessment, corrections, law enforcement, and forensic intervention. Our goal is to provide premium professional training in an accessible online format. We believe in the value of world-class professional training, enhanced by continuing education and lifelong learning, in an online format accessible to all.


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