Disorders in the Court 2008:
Dealing with Legal Professionals in North Carolina Systems
A Forensic Psychology / Medicine Symposium
September 5, 2008 - Grandover Resort,
Greensboro, NC
Co-sponsored by: SOLUTIONS OF HICKORY, PA |
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6 hours ~ Category A Continuing Education Credit for
Psychologists |
Credit also
offered for other health and mental health
professionals.
Including 3 hours ~ “Ethical and Legal Issues for Psychologists”
credit
– required for all NC psychologists by October 1, 2008!
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Speaker: John F.
Warren, III, Ph.D.
Forensic Psychologist (ABPP)
Physician Assistant (PA-C) |
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“Disorders
in the Court, 2008” provides 6.00 contact hours of
Continuing education credit, which includes 3.00 hours
legal and ethical issues. More and more “clinical”
professionals take on patients who are involved in the
legal system in some manner. This workshop addresses
“real life” examples of how mental health and medical
professionals interact with attorneys and their staffs
in particular, and the legal system in North Carolina in
general. Particular issues to be addressed include:
Accepting referrals from lawyers, interacting with legal
staff, the legal and ethical issues that accrue when
evaluating or treating patients involved in legal cases,
and pitfalls that face mental health and medical
professionals who are not informed and prepared for the
difference in “culture” between “helping professions”
and jurisprudence.
The
workshop devotes three hours to the professional,
ethical, and legal issues incumbent in dealing with
colleagues, legal professionals, and patient populations
involved in some legal process. Areas of intentional and
unexpected practitioner involvement with malingering
patients are identified, and an update on recent court
decisions regarding mental health and medical practice
is provided. |
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Objectives:
By the conclusion of the training participants
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Describe techniques to increase
comfort level and competence in
interactions with legal
professionals.
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Identify the various legal and
quasi-legal systems within North
Carolina, and employ
standardized and routine
mechanisms for interacting with
lawyers and their paralegals.
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Recognize and effectively manage
the general ethical issues of
the practitioner involved in
legal settings.
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Describe specific ethical issues
pertaining to phone calls,
depositions, testimony,
accepting referrals, etc.
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Provide examples of real-world
legal pitfalls that have
discouraged medical and mental
health clinicians in
the past.
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Summarize critical and/or recent
case law regarding medical and
mental health issues in the
legal system.
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Presenter: |
John F.
Warren, III. completed his doctoral training (Ph.D.) from
Duke University in 1980. He participated in the
Winston-Salem Police Academy in 1987. He completed the
forensic training program at the Institute of Law,
Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia
in 1989 and is listed in the National Register of Health
Service Providers in Psychology. He is an elected member of
the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and he is board
certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of
Professional Psychology (ABPP). After years of clinical
practice he returned to undergraduate school for pre-medical
training, and subsequently completed a Physician Assistant
medical program and became certified as a physician
assistant (PA-C). In addition to his clinical forensic
practice he works one day a week in a family medicine
practice, specializing in behavioral medicine and
psychopharmacology.
Dr. Warren conducts complex psychological evaluations in the
specialty areas of medical psychology and forensic
psychology. These include risk assessments, evaluations of
patients with primary medical problems and work injuries,
disability evaluations, Independent Medical Evaluations, and
evaluations originating from criminal, civil and family law
processes. He is a Managing Member of The FMRT Group (www.FMRT.com),
conducting medical and psychological evaluations of police
officer candidates, specialized training for law
enforcement, risk of violence assessments, and Fitness for
Duty evaluations. He has directed two sex offender programs
for the NC DOC, and was a charter clinical member of ABTSA,
now ATSA. Dr. Warren has evaluated patients involved in
litigation in several states, in federal and military
courts; and in administrative law proceedings. He has been
qualified as an expert witness more than 200 times. |
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Lodging
& Venue Information:
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The
symposium will be held at the Grandover Resort
in Greensboro, NC.
Please visit their website at
www.grandoverresort.com
or call 800-472-6301 if you require lodging
arrangements.
Lunch is on your own, however there are two restaurants onsite and several
in the local area. |
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Intended audience: |
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Psychologists
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Psychiatrists
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Social Workers
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Physician Assistants
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Marriage and Family Therapists
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Counselors
- Nurses
- other
professionals in the mental health and
medical fields
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8:30-9:00 am ~
Registration & Coffee
9:00-10:30 am ~ Comfort Level: Ethical Interactions with
Legal Professionals
10:30-10:45am ~ Morning Break
10:45-Noon ~ Clinical, Ethical, and Practical Dilemmas and
their Solutions
Noon-1:30 ~ Lunch – on your
own
1:30-2:45 ~ IGBOS (“I Got
Burned Once): Stories from Real Life
2:45-3:00 ~ Afternoon Break
3:00-4:30 ~ Recent, Relevant Case Law and Implications for
Practice |
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Disorders in
the Court Parts I – IV were offered previously in this
series. Attendance at previous Disorders in the Court
Workshops is not required or necessary for registration for
this workshop.
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