Specialized Training Services
In Person & Online Learning
Training programs for
- Law Enforcement
- SROs
- School Mental Health Professionals
- School Administrators
- Law Makers, School Safety Specialists
- Prosecuting Attorneys
- Criminal Defense Attorneys
- Forensic Mental Health Professionals
- Judges
- Mitigation Specialists, and
- Forensic Mental Health Evaluators
8 hour
Psychological Aspects of School Threat Assessment
Target Audience: Law Enforcement, SROs, School Mental Health Professionals, School Administrators, Law Makers, School Safety Specialists
Learning Objectives: Identify what is a threat, who is making a threat, who is not making a threat, types of threateners, warning signs that indicate high threat level, and methodologies for effective threat assessment.
16 hour
Psychological Aspects of School Threat Assessment and Management
Target Audience: Law Enforcement, SROs, School Mental Health Professionals, School Administrators, Law Makers, School Safety Specialists
Learning Objectives: This training includes the 8-hour training and expands upon it through increased exercises, hot washes, and threat management education.
4 hour or 8 hour
Bullet-Proof Interviews and Confessions
Considerations for Law Enforcement and Attorneys
Target Audience: Law Enforcement, Prosecuting Attorneys, Criminal Defense Attorneys, Forensic Mental Health Professionals
Learning Objectives: Understand intellectual, learning, age, and mental health factors that influence whether someone can knowingly and intelligently waive their 5th and 6th Amendment rights. Understand when an attorney may consult with an expert to assist with assessing these factors. Learn methods that will aid in decreasing the likelihood of a suppression hearing regarding defendant statements and interviews.
8 hour
Evaluating Child Forensic Interviews
Target Audience: Law Enforcement, Prosecuting Attorneys, Criminal Defense Attorneys, Forensic Mental Health Professionals
Learning Objectives: Understand intellectual, learning, age, and mental health factors that influence conducting child forensic interviews. Learn implications of poorly conducted interviews. Obtain an overview of the NICHD protocol for interviewing children. Apply the NICHD protocol to interviews for critique and evaluation.
4 hour or 8 hour
Considerations for Diminished Capacity and Mitigation
with Military and Veteran Defendants
Target Audience: Judges, Criminal Defense Attorneys, Mitigation Specialists, and Forensic Mental Health Evaluators
Learning Objectives: Understand basics of military command structure, training, adaptive behaviors, and potential trauma sources. Know and apply information regarding pre-military trauma and how it affects resiliency to other traumas. Understand research and applied findings regarding working with military defendants. Know how to best determine whether defendant's claims are credible. Understand how to request the needed records to aid in defense preparation.
6 Hour
Mental Health Expert Witnesses
A Primer for Legal Professionals
Target Audience: Legal Professionals
Learning Objectives: This training is a 6-hour training that prepares judges, attorneys, legal assistants, and mitigation specialists to understand the roles of treating providers versus expert consultants and expert witnesses. Guidelines and practice standards are discussed in order to provide legal professionals with the ability to critique reports, evaluations, deposition, and testimony. Attorneys will be prepared to engage in the examination and cross-examination of mental health professionals, both expert and treating providers. Judges will be able to weigh the evidence to determine whether the evidence will be considered.
