Juvenile Assessment Issues and Evaluation of Juvenile Waiver to Adult Court
Presented by: Randall Salekin, PhD
This on-demand professional training program on Juvenile Assessment Issues and Evaluation of Juvenile Waiver to Adult Court is presented by Randy T. Salekin, PhD. This badge-earning program can be shared digitally on platforms like LinkedIn or your resume and counts towards a certificate. Enroll in this program to earn credit towards Juvenile Forensic Assessment Certificate and share your new digital credentials with prospective employers and colleagues.
The program is intended to comprehensively cover important topics and factors related to the juvenile justice system and assessment of youthful offenders while embedding developmental psychopathology principles in the assessment process. This program covers six main topic areas with respect to this type of assessment. First, the program briefly overviews the juvenile justice system and the role of psychologists in the system. Second, the program examines ways in which to assess deception in children and adolescents. Third, the program helps clinicians and researchers understand personality functioning in youth and discusses how the Big 5 factor model of general personality applies to youthful offender evaluations. Fourth, the program covers the assessment of risk for dangerousness, maturity, and treatment amenability and readiness, integrating the topics of the veracity of reporting and personality. In addition, developmental maturity is embedded in the discussion of all topic areas, given its importance in the assessment and treatment of juvenile offenders. Fifth, the program discusses psychological measures that can be used in disposition and transfer measures. Finally, this program discusses and provides practical guidelines for how psychological evaluations can be constructed and framed within a developmental perspective and how such information can be communicated to relevant court personnel or treatment providers via psychological reports and/or testimony.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
Key topics covered in this training include:
Participants learn about the juvenile justice system and the role of the psychologist in the system
Participants learn to assess deception in children and adolescents
Participants learn about personality functions in youth and discuss the Big 5 factor model
Participants learn about psychological measures that can be used in disposition and transfer measures
Participants learn practical guidelines on how psychological evaluations can be constructed
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American Psychological Association (APA): Approved sponsor of continuing education for psychologists.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Approved continuing education provider (ACE program, Provider #1480), 11/22/2023–11/22/2026.
Canadian Psychological Association (CPA): Approved to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7190).
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.