7 Hours | 7 CEs

This on-demand professional training program on Cultural Considerations in Forensic Psychology is presented by Michelle Guyton, Ph.D., ABPP, in partnership with The American Academy of Forensic Psychology.

This training program reviews the impact of culture, ethnicity, and language on interviewing, assessment, and diagnosis in the forensic context. Cognitive psychology, as it relates to implicit bias and decision-making, is also discussed. This program focuses on understanding this literature, how it relates to forensic practice, and expanding skills for conducting forensic mental health evaluations with culturally and linguistically diverse individuals. Topics described include cultural expressions of psychopathology, interviewing strategies, working with interpreters, and ethical considerations.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this program you will be able to:

  • Describe patterns of overrepresentation within the criminal justice system for individuals from non-dominant cultures

  • Describe how models of cognitive processing link to implicit bias

  • Describe cultural expressions of psychopathology

  • Describe professional resources that can facilitate understanding of an examinee’s culture and heritage

  • Describe strategies for working effectively with language interpreters

  • Describe how to consider culture and at what stage of the legal process based on referral question

  • Describe and respond to ethical conflicts that arise when psychologists evaluate people from cultures and backgrounds different from their own

  • Describe and use APA guidelines to assist when evaluating culturally and linguistically diverse individuals

Presented By

Michelle R. Guyton, PhD, ABPP

Michelle Guyton co-owns the Northwest Forensic Institute, providing evaluations and education in forensic psychology since 2008. She is a licensed psychologist and certified forensic evaluator in Oregon. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology at Sam Houston State University and her doctorate at the University of Utah. She is one of five board-certified forensic psychologists in the state and the first female to hold this status. In Oregon since 2005, Dr. Guyton worked at the School of Graduate Psychology at Pacific University in Hillsboro, Oregon for ten years. There she functioned as an assistant then tenured associate professor, director of the forensic track, and in other administrative capacities. She and her students presented papers and posters at a variety of regional, national, and international conferences focused on forensic and correctional psychology. She has published in the area of violence risk assessment, inmates’ adjustment to prison, and forensic assessment instruments. Dr. Guyton also worked at the Oregon Department of Corrections where she provided treatment and assessment services to male and female inmates with serious mental illnesses. Dr. Guyton is the director of the Oregon Forensic Evaluator Training Program since its inception in 2012, a state-contracted program that provides initial and recertification trainings for evaluators conducting competency and criminal responsibility evaluations. She is the training director for NWFI’s postdoctoral fellowship and practicum student programs. Dr. Guyton also provides trainings to forensic mental health professionals, lawyers, judges, and other justice-related agencies. She provides consultation to attorneys, government agencies, and other psychologists. In the criminal forensic domain, she conducts evaluations that focus on fitness to proceed, criminal responsibility, sentencing, other competency issues, violence and psychosexual risk assessments. Dr. Guyton also conducts evaluations in the civil domain, including IMEs, personal injury, testamentary capacity, and fitness-for-duty evaluations.
  • Intended Audience

    This self-paced program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals.

  • Experience Level

    This self-paced program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.

  • CE / CPD Credit

    APA, ASWB, CPA, NBCC Click here for state and other regional board approvals.

Curriculum

    1. Review Before Proceeding

    1. Lesson 1 Video

    2. Lesson Quiz

    1. Lesson 2 Video

    2. Lesson Quiz

    1. Lesson 3 Video

    2. Multicultural Guidelines

    3. Lesson Quiz

    1. Lesson 4 Video

    2. Ethics in the Time of Injustice

    3. APA Guidelines on Race and Ethnicity

    4. List of Acculturation Measures

    5. Low Income and Economic Marginalization

    6. Lesson Quiz

    1. Lesson 5 Video

    2. Lesson Quiz

About this course

  • $350.00
  • 22 lessons
  • 6 hours of video content

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American Academy of Forensic Psychology

We are proud to partner with the American Academy of Forensic Psychology (AAFP) for this training. AAFP is a non-profit organization of board certified forensic psychologists whose mission is to contribute to the development and maintenance of forensic psychology as a specialized field of study, research and practice. The Academy does this by providing high quality continuing education workshops, providing a forum for the exchange of scientific information among its members, and conferring awards upon outstanding students and practitioners in the field of forensic psychology.

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