Juvenile Forensic Programs
Scheduled Programs (registration applications now being accepted)
Juvenile Forensic Evaluation: Principles and Practice
This five-day program, to be held April 23-27, 2012, provides basic legal, clinical, and evidence-based training in the principles and practices of forensic evaluation, appropriate for juvenile and adult forensic evaluators. Registration Schedule: $150 - employees of VA DBHDS & its Community Services Boards, and employees of the Office of Attorney General. $750 - all Others.
Evaluation Update: Applying Forensic Skills to Juveniles
This program, to be held April 23-25, 2012, is for experienced adult forensic evaluators (who have already successfully completed the five-day “Basic Forensic Evaluation” program for ADULTS) and wish to evaluate juveniles. Registration Schedule: $80 - employees of VA DBHDS & its Community Services Boards, and employees of the Office of Attorney General. $190 - all Others. ( Agencies and organizations may consider negotiating a group discount : please advise els2e@virginia.edu )
Advanced Case Presentation: Juvenile Adjudicative Competence
In this one-day advanced program on May 23, 2012 [ Note: changed from June 1 2012 ], clinicians will view and discuss an evaluation for juvenile adjudicative competence in order to fulfill the training requirements approved by the DBHDS Commissioner for individuals authorized to conduct juvenile competence evaluations. Registration Schedule: $50 - employees of VA DBHDS & its Community Services Boards, and employees of the Office of Attorney General. $135 - all Others. ( Agencies and organizations may consider negotiating a group discount : please advise els2e@virginia.edu )
Future Programs (programs planned but not finalized; applications not yet being accepted)
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Previously Held Programs
Adolescence in the Juvenile Court
On January 21, 2011, Jennifer Woolard, PhD, of Georgetown University, presented "Are Adolescents Really Less Mature than Adults: The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development & Juvenile Justice" and Andrew Block, Esq., University of Virginia School of Law, presented "Graham v. Florida: The U.S. Supreme Court Tackles Developmental Issues and Life Sentences for Juveniles"
Complex Assessment Issues with Juveniles Symposium
On April 29, 2011, Jay Giedd, MD, of the National Institute of Mental Health's Child Psychiatry presented on The Teen Brain: Insight from Neuroimaging; Diana Perkins, MD, of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry, presented on Prodromal Syndrome for First Onset Psychosis: The PRIME North America Study, and Dewey Cornell, PhD, of the University of Virginia Curry School of Education, presented on Insidious Onset of Schizophrenia in the Paducah School Shooting Case: Forensic Considerations and Appeal Issues.
Juvenile Psychiatric Screening
On June 17, 2011, Bernice Marcopulos, PhD, Director of the Western State Hospital Neuropsychology Laboratory in Staunton, VA, and Jeffrey Aaron, PhD, Forensic Coordinator at the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton, VA presented on Juvenile Psychiatric Screening and Neuropsychology.
Assessing Risk for Violence with Juveniles
This one-day program, held September 30, 2011, trains juvenile practitioners to apply current research pertaining to risk assessment of juveniles.
ADVANCED: Police Custody and the Interrogation of Juveniles
Held November 4, 2011, the program presented expertise regarding Police Custody and Interrogation of Youth, and include discussion with participants. Presenters and their topics: Lawrence Fitch, Esq, University of Maryland, presented The Rights of Juveniles in Delinquency Cases: Understanding the Principles of Miranda Waiver and the Admissibility of Confessions in Juvenile Court; Dickon Reppucci, PhD, University of Virginia, presented Research on the Police Interrogation of Juveniles; Gregg McCrary (FBI, Retired), presented Controversial Juvenile Cases: Evidence, Testimony and Outcomes