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


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)

“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.


Objectives
:  By the conclusion of the training participants will: 

 
  • Describe techniques to increase comfort level and competence in interactions with legal professionals.
  • Identify the various legal and quasi-legal systems within North Carolina, and employ standardized and routine mechanisms for interacting with lawyers and their paralegals.
  • Recognize and effectively manage the general ethical issues of the practitioner involved in legal settings.
  • Describe specific ethical issues pertaining to phone calls, depositions, testimony, accepting referrals, etc.
  • Provide examples of  real-world legal pitfalls that have discouraged medical and mental health clinicians in
    the past.
  • Summarize critical and/or recent case law regarding medical and mental health issues in the legal system.
     
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.
 

Lodging & Venue Information:

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.

Intended audience:
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Social Workers
  • Physician Assistants
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Counselors
  • Nurses
  • other professionals in the mental health and medical fields
 Symposium Schedule:


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


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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